Herbicide risk assessments of non-target terrestrial plant communities: A graphical user interface for the plant community model IBC-grass.

ABSTRACT: Plants located adjacent to agricultural fields are important for maintaining biodiversity in semi-natural landscapes. To avoid undesired impacts on these plants due to herbicide application on the arable fields, regulatory risk assessments are conducted prior to registration to ensure proposed uses of plant protection products do not present an unacceptable risk. The current risk assessment approach for these non-target terrestrial plants (NTTPs) examines impacts at the individual-level as a surrogate approach for protecting the plant community due to the inherent difficulties of directly assessing population or community level impacts. However, modelling approaches are suitable higher tier tools to upscale individual-level effects to community level. IBC-grass is a sophisticated plant com

SUBMITTER: Reeg J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7069634 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature