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Schabacker et al. (2012) Focal Bird Species for Amenity Grassland Risk Assessments
EFSA guidance (EFSA Journal 2009; 7/12) gives a list of crop groups and indicator species for the risk assessment of birds and mammals. For agricultural grasslands such as pastures and meadows, the default focal species given by EFSA are the house sparrow, linnet, pink-footed goose, and yellow wagtail.
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Henkes, Henkes (2012) Computer controlled High Gradient Extractor for soil organisms
Soil micro-arthropods, such as Acari and Collembola, are essential components of the soil decomposer system and valuable indicators of soil quality and soil biodiversity. Evaluating the impact of agrochemicals or assessing the risks posed by genetically modified plants (GMOs) on micro-soil organisms is likely to gain more importance in the future.
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Körner et al. (2012) Relevant Lizard Species for the Risk Assessment of Plant Protection Products in Northern and Central Europe
According to the new data requirements under the EU regulation 1107/2009, reptiles come into question regarding risk assessments of plant protection products (PPP). Although no specific data requirements on reptiles are stipulated in the respective EU documents (e.g. SANCO 11802/2010/rev July 2010) some toxicity data are available in the open literature. These data are intended to be used in the risk assessment.
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Lutzmann et al. (2012) Relevant Lizard Species for the Risk Assessment of Plant Protection Products in Southern Europe
According to the new data requirements under the EU regulation 1107/2009, reptiles come into question regarding risk assessments of plant protection products. Although no specific data requirements on reptiles are stipulated in the respective EU documents some toxicity data are available in the open literature.
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Lutzmann, Vogel, Böhme (2012) Are the Mediterranean chameleon species possible focal species for risk assessments for PPPs in Southern Europe?
According to the new data requirements under the EU regulation 1107/2009, reptiles come into question regarding risk assessments of plant protection products (PPP). Although no specific data requirements on reptiles are stipulated in the respective EU documents some toxicity data are available in the open literature. These data are intended to be used in the risk assessment.
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Seiterle-Winn, Hörold (2012) Impact of the Rainfall Criterion in the EFSA Soil Persistence Guideline on Kinetic Evaluation of Field Degradation Trials
In 2010 the EFSA published a new guidance on soil persistence for the derivation of field half lives of pesticides with the aim to exclude loss processes at the soil surface (i.e. photolysis, volatilisation) .
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Körner et al. (2012), Relevant snakes and turtle species for the risk assessment of plant protection products in Northern and Central Europe
According to the new data requirements under the EU regulation 1107/2009, reptiles come into question regarding risk assessments of plant protection products (PPP). Although no specific data requirements on reptiles are stipulated in the respective EU documents (e.g. SANCO 11802/2010/rev July 2010), some toxicity data are available in the open literature.
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Lutzmann et al. (2012), Relevant Snake Species for the Risk Assessment of Plant Protection Products in Southern Europe
According to the new data requirements under the EU regulation 1107/2009, reptiles come into question regarding risk assessments of plant protection products (PPP). Although no specific data requirements on reptiles are stipulated in the respective EU documents some toxicity data are available in the open literature.
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Wang, Erzgräber, Gottesbüren (2010), EPAT – An Exposure Pattern Analysis Tool
The behaviour of pesticides in water bodies adjacent to a single field is calculated for the registration in the EU with the surface water model FOCUS TOXSWA. The calculated pesticide concentrations in the water and sediment layer describe the exposure over time, which is typically characterized by rather short exposure peaks.
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Gericke, Nekovar, Hörold (2010), Estimation of Application Dates of Plant Protection Products for Environmental Fate Modelling Based on Phenological Stages of Crops
According to the EU directive 91/414/EEC potential environmental concentrations of pesticides have to be assessed with environmental fate models. For the calculation of pesticide concentrations it is necessary to provide an application date which has to match the specific BBCH stage at which the pesticide shall be applied.
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Wang, Wolf (2008), A Probabilistic Model for Estimating the Exposure and Effects After Spray Application in Real Landscapes
In current risk assessments for plant protection products applied via spray application, default drift-values are used which are based on a large number of field trials conducted by Ganzelmeier et al. and Rautmann et al.
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Höller, Norman, Riffel (2007), Novel approaches in monitoring effects of pesticide products on wild small mammals
A field experiment was conducted in Southwest France where small mammal populations were monitored in azinphos-methyl (OP insecticide) treated pome fruit orchards. Small mammal abundance within the orchards was regularly measured by live trapping which followed a Capture-Mark-Recapture design.
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