Mechanistic modeling of insecticide risks to breeding birds in North American agroecosystems.

ABSTRACT: Insecticide usage in the United States is ubiquitous in urban, suburban, and rural environments. There is accumulating evidence that insecticides adversely affect non-target wildlife species, including birds, causing mortality, reproductive impairment, and indirect effects through loss of prey base, and the type and magnitude of such effects differs by chemical class, or mode of action. In evaluating data for an insecticide registration application and for registration review, scientists at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) assess the fate of the insecticide and the risk the insecticide poses to the environment and non-target wildlife. Current USEPA risk assessments for pesticides generally rely on endpoints from laboratory based toxicity studies focused on groups o

SUBMITTER: Etterson M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5415183 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature