Quantitative selection of focal birds and mammals in higher-tier risk assessment: An application to rice cultivations.

ABSTRACT: European Pesticide Registration requires a risk assessment (RA) for nontarget organisms according to EU Regulation. European Authorities have developed Guidance Documents (GDs) for RA considering exposure scenarios for the required organisms typical for terrestrial crops. The "Birds and Mammals EFSA GD" allows using multiple sources of information to extract information on species frequency needed in identifying focal species for higher-tier RA. We developed an analytical framework to calculate species frequency according to availability of species and habitat quantitative data. Since the exposure scenarios reported in the EFSA GD are inconsistent for rice, we tested the method on birds and mammals in a portion of the largest rice-cultivated area of Europe, the Italian Po floodplain. We de

SUBMITTER: Orioli V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9298216 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature