Conclusions of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment on the risks of neonicotinoids and fipronil to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
2014; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/s11356-014-3229-5
ISSN1614-7499
AutoresJ.P. van der Sluijs, V. Amaral-Rogers, Luc Belzunces, Maarten F.I.J. Bijleveld van Lexmond, J.M. Bonmatin, Madeleine Chagnon, Craig A. Downs, Lorenzo Furlan, David W. Gibbons, Chiara Giorio, V. Girolami, Dave Goulson, David P. Kreutzweiser, Christian H. Krupke, Matthias Liess, Elizabeth Y Long, Melanie McField, Pierre Mineau, Edward A. D. Mitchell, Christy A. Morrissey, Dominique A. Noome, Lennard Pisa, Josef Settele, Noa Simon‐Delso, John D. Stark, Andrea Tapparo, Hans Van Dyck, Job van Praagh, Penelope R. Whitehorn, Martin Wiemers,
Tópico(s)Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
ResumoThe side effects of the current global use of pesticides on wildlife, particularly at higher levels of biological organization: populations, communities and ecosystems, are poorly understood (Kohler and Triebskorn 2013). Here, we focus on one of the problematic groups of agrochemicals, the systemic insecticides fipronil and those of the neonicotinoid family. The increasing global reliance on the partly prophylactic use of these persistent and potent neurotoxic systemic insecticides has raised concerns about their impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services provided by a wide range of affected species and environments. The present scale of use, combined with the properties of these compounds, has resulted in widespread contamination of agricultural soils, freshwater resources, wetlands, non-target vegetation and estuarine and coastal marine systems, which means that many organisms inhabiting these habitats are being repeatedly and chronically expose...
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