Fig. 1: Aerial view of the study region Upper Rhine Valley, Germany, its land use and measured cumulative number of Current Use Pesticides residues in topsoil and vegetation per transect. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 1: Aerial view of the study region Upper Rhine Valley, Germany, its land use and measured cumulative number of Current Use Pesticides residues in topsoil and vegetation per transect.

From: Current-use pesticides in vegetation, topsoil and water reveal contaminated landscapes of the Upper Rhine Valley, Germany

Fig. 1

A Aerial view with the 78 sample sites (white dots) and six transects (T1-T6). Sample sites were located on line transects T1 - T6 (north to south) with west/east orientation and categorized into mountain and valley depending their location regarding the mountain foot. B Land-use (C) Measured cumulative number of CUPs in topsoil and vegetation per transect. Water was excluded in (C), due to the availability at only 30 sites. Vegetation and topsoil were sampled between June 15th and July 11th 2022. Digital Elevation Model and forest/urban land cover from European Environment Agency (EEA) (2016); remaining land use categories from Blickensdörfer et al. (2021) of the year 2019. Aerial view: © 2025 Google, TerraMetrics.

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