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Field evaluation of the Littoral Ecosystem Risk Assessment Model's predictions of the effects of chlorpyrifos.

Published online: 22 Feb 1995

Authors: Hanratty, M. P. & Stay, F. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A Littoral Ecosystem Risk Assessment Model (LERAM) is described and evaluated using field data from a previous littoral enclosure study of the effects...

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The effects of aerially applied fenitrothion and chlorpyrifos on birds in the savannah of northern Senegal.

Published online: 05 Apr 1995

Authors: Mullié, W. C. & Keith, J. O.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effects of applications of locust insecticides on birds were studied in the savannah of northern Senegal in 1989. The insecticides studied were fe...

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Effects of pasture improvement and management on the ground beetle and spider communities of upland grasslands.

Published online: 08 Aug 1992

Authors: Rushton, S. P. & Luff, M. L. & Eyre, M. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effects of pasture improvement procedures and subsequent pesticide use on the carabid and spider faunas of semi- natural upland grasslands in nort...

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Temperature- and latitude-specific individual growth rates shape the vulnerability of damselfly larvae to a widespread pesticide.

Published online: 06 Aug 2014

Authors: Khuong Dinh Van & Janssens, L. & Debecker, S. & Stoks, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Freshwater ecosystems are especially vulnerable to climate change and pollution. One key challenge for aquatic toxicology is to determine and manage t...

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Effects of pesticides on the germination of weed seeds: implications for manipulative experiments.

Published online: 17 Apr 1993

Authors: Gange, A. C. & Brown, V. K. & Farmer, L. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effects of 2 insecticides (chlorpyrifos and dimethoate at 6.4 × 10-4 and 1.9 × 10-4 g/Petri dish, resp.) and a fungicide (iprodione at 6.4 × 10-3 ...

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Negative effects of pesticides under global warming can be counteracted by a higher degradation rate and thermal adaptation.

Published online: 10 Jan 2018

Authors: Beeck, L. O. de & Verheyen, J. & Olsen, K. & Stoks, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

An alarming finding for biodiversity is that global warming and pesticides often interact synergistically. Yet, this synergism may not capture the ful...

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Reducing disease and producing food: effects of 13 agrochemicals on snail biomass and human schistosomes.

Published online: 30 Apr 2022

Authors: Haggerty, C. J. E. & Halstead, N. T. & Civitello, D. J. & Rohr, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural expansion is predicted to increase agrochemical use two to fivefold by 2050 to meet food demand. Experimental evidence suggests that agro...

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Direct and indirect effects of urbanization, pesticides and wild insect pollinators on mango yield.

Published online: 15 Feb 2024

Authors: Marcacci, G. & Soubadra Devy & Wenzel, A. & Rao, V. S. & Kumar, S. S. & Nölke, N. & Belavadi, V. V. & Tscharntke, T. & Grass, I. & Westphal, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Expanding cities increasingly encroach fertile farmlands, questioning the viability of maintaining agriculture within and around them. Yet, our knowle...

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