Mind the gap-national pesticide monitoring data needs for invertebrate effects assessments in English rivers.

ABSTRACT: Pesticides are an integral part of agriculture in arable and pastoral farming and in animal and pet care, but they have been shown to have detrimental impacts on biodiversity, including of freshwater systems. The United Kingdom (UK) has the 7th highest pesticide usage per area of arable land across 30 European and African countries assessed between the years 2000 and 2012 and thus an associated higher likelihood for impacts on riverine biodiversity. In our analysis of the UK's 24-year national chemical monitoring program (WIMS database; years 2000 to 2023), we show that of the nine pesticides that pose the greatest likely threat to UK freshwater invertebrates based on concentrations measured in British rivers exceeding the lowest effect concentrations (ECs) in laboratory-based toxicity tes

SUBMITTER: Poyntz-Wright IP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11864203 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature