Population-level impacts of pesticide-induced chronic effects on individuals depend more on ecology than toxicology

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1663-1672

  Dalkvist, T ^a,b   Topping, C J ^a,b   Forbes, V E ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ABM; ALMaSS; Ecotoxicology; IBM; Long term; Microtus agrestis; Pesticide; Risk assessment; Vinclozolin

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MAMMAL; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; EUROPEAN UNION; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION RECOVERY; POPULATION RISK; PREDICTION; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; TOXICOLOGY; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HALF-LIFE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; OXAZOLES; PESTICIDES; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MURIDAE;

EID: 68549094338     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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