Environmental fate and exposure; neonicotinoids and fipronil
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire · +11 more institutions
Abstract
Systemic insecticides are applied to plants using a wide variety of methods, ranging from foliar sprays to seed treatments and soil drenches. Neonicotinoids and fipronil are among the most widely used pesticides in the world. Their popularity is largely due to their high toxicity to invertebrates, the ease and flexibility with which they can be applied, their long persistence, and their systemic nature, which ensures that they spread to all parts of the target crop. However, these properties also increase the probability of environmental contamination and exposure of nontarget organisms. Environmental contamination occurs via a number of routes including dust generated during drilling of dressed seeds,…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 76.54
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 199
Authors
13- JBJ.M. BonmatinCorresponding
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire
- CGChiara Giorio
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST), University of Cambridge
- VGV. Girolami
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST), University of Padua
- DGDave Goulson
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST), University of Sussex
- DPDavid P. Kreutzweiser
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST)
Topics & keywords
- Fipronil
- Environmental science
- Soil water
- Pesticide
- Contamination
- Ecotoxicology
- Arable land
- Toxicology