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2003
Poster
Titel
Pesticide related monitoring studies in Germany
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EPIF - Effects of pesticides in the field. Poster at the SETAC-Europe Workshop, Le Croisic, France, 21.-24. Oktober 2003
Abstract
In the last 10 years, different monitoring studies have been conducted in Germany to analyse the effects of pesticides on non-target organisms. In addition, several studies focused on the measurement of pesticide concentrations in surface waters or nontarget areas. The objective of the project presented here is to summarize and evaluate these studies in a uniform way and to discuss the relevance with respect to the current practise of pesticide registration. For this review, monitoring is differentiated into chemical (measuring chemical concentrations in the field), biological (`active monitoring', measuring the response of test organisms to samples taken or exposed in the field), and ecological monitoring (`passive monitoring', measuring species abundances and community structure in the field). Information about monitoring studies is obtained from publications, reports, presentations on conferences and personal communication. We give an overview over the 34 projects and their main characteristics which have been recorded until now. Nearly all studies include chemical monitoring but some conducted ecological monitoring only. In most of the studies the focus was on exposure and effects in water bodies, mainly ditches or streams close to agricultural land.
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