Holistic evaluation of long-term earthworm field studies with a fungicide.

ABSTRACT: Plant protection products to be placed on the market in the European Union need to meet rigorous safety criteria including the testing of lumbricid earthworms, the functionally most important soil organism group in Central European agricultural ecosystems. To address uncertainties and investigate the potential long-term in-crop effects of the fungicide Cantus^® containing 50% boscalid as an active substance, a series of standardized earthworm field studies with an overall duration of 5 years per study program was carried out in four German agricultural fields under realistic crop rotation conditions. A two-step approach was chosen to analyze the potential overall long-term effects on earthworms in agricultural fields: (i) an assessment of the earthworm abundance development in th

SUBMITTER: Jansch S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9543917 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature