Modeling potential freshwater ecotoxicity impacts due to pesticide use in biofuel feedstock production: The cases of maize, rapeseed, Salix, soybean, sugar cane, and wheat

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 11379-11388

  Nordborg, Maria ^a   Cederberg, Christel ^a   Berndes, Göran ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; FEEDSTOCKS; HERBICIDES; OILSEEDS; SUGAR CANE; WATER;

BIO-BASED PRODUCTS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FEEDSTOCK PRODUCTION; GLYPHOSATE HERBICIDE; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PESTICIDE EMISSION; SCHLESWIG HOLSTEINS;

SUGAR INDUSTRY;

FRESH WATER; GLYPHOSATE; PESTICIDE; BIOFUEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOFUEL; CEREAL; CROP PLANT; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GLYPHOSATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OIL PRODUCTION; PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; DATA BASE; ECOTOXICITY; ENERGY YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MAIZE; RAPESEED; SOYBEAN; SUGARCANE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WHEAT; WILLOW; ANALYSIS; ANGIOSPERM; BRAZIL; GERMANY; SWEDEN; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT;

BRAZIL; EUROPE; IOWA; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; UNITED STATES;

BRASSICA NAPUS; GLYCINE MAX; SACCHARUM; SALIX; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIOFUELS; BRAZIL; FRESH WATER; GERMANY; IOWA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PESTICIDES; SWEDEN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84907937821     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es502497p     Document Type: Article

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