Search Results - "Brock, Theo"
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Is the Effect Assessment Approach for Fungicides as Laid Down in the European Food Safety Authority Aquatic Guidance Document Sufficiently Protective for Freshwater Ecosystems?
Published in Environmental toxicology and chemistry (01-10-2019)“…In Europe, the European Food Safety Authority aquatic guidance document describes the procedures for the derivation of regulatory acceptable concentrations…”
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Toxic effects of hexaflumuron on the development of Coccinella septempunctata
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international (01-01-2014)“…Studying the toxic risk of pesticide exposure to ladybird beetles is important from an agronomical and ecological perspective since larval and adult ladybirds…”
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Assessing effects of the fungicide tebuconazole to heterotrophic microbes in aquatic microcosms
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-08-2014)“…Aquatic ecological risk assessment of fungicides in Europe under Regulation 1107/2009/EC does not currently assess risk to non-target bacteria and fungi…”
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Aquatic and sediment ecotoxicity data of difenoconazole and its potential environmental risks in ponds bordering rice paddies
Published in Ecotoxicology and environmental safety (15-03-2024)“…Difenoconazole has a widespread agricultural use to control fungal diseases in crops, including rice. In edge-of-field surface waters the residues of this…”
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Insecticide species sensitivity distributions: Importance of test species selection and relevance to aquatic ecosystems
Published in Environmental toxicology and chemistry (01-02-2005)“…Single‐species acute toxicity data and (micro)mesocosm data were collated for 16 insecticides. These data were used to investigate the importance of…”
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Species Sensitivity Distributions of Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Fludioxonil-Spiked Sediment Toxicity Tests
Published in Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology (01-05-2022)“…The fungicide fludioxonil, given its physicochemical properties, potentially accumulates and persists in sediments. Fludioxonil has a widespread agricultural…”
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Impact of imidacloprid on life-cycle development of Coccinella septempunctata in laboratory microcosms
Published in Ecotoxicology and environmental safety (01-12-2014)“…Long-term effects of a single application of imidacloprid on ladybird beetle, Coccinella septempunctata L., were studied in indoor laboratory microcosms,…”
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Development of a framework based on an ecosystem services approach for deriving specific protection goals for environmental risk assessment of pesticides
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-01-2012)“…General protection goals for the environmental risk assessment (ERA) of plant protection products are stated in European legislation but specific protection…”
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Improving environmental risk assessments of chemicals: Steps towards evidence-based ecotoxicology
Published in Environment international (01-07-2019)“…[Display omitted] •9 recommendations digest recent developments in regulatory environmental risk assessment.•Efforts are necessary to make the translation of…”
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Sediment toxicity of the fungicide fludioxonil to benthic macroinvertebrates -evaluation of the tiered effect assessment procedure
Published in Ecotoxicology and environmental safety (01-06-2020)“…28-Day sediment-spiked laboratory toxicity tests with eight benthic macroinvertebrates and the lipophilic fungicide fludioxonil were conducted to verify the…”
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Developing ecological scenarios for the prospective aquatic risk assessment of pesticides
Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management (01-07-2016)“…ABSTRACT The prospective aquatic environmental risk assessment (ERA) of pesticides is generally based on the comparison of predicted environmental…”
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Exposure and effects of sediment-spiked fludioxonil on macroinvertebrates and zooplankton in outdoor aquatic microcosms
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-01-2018)“…•There is a lack of information on the ecological impact of sediment-exposure to pesticides•We studied the effects of sediment-spiked fludioxonil, a lipophylic…”
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Exposure pattern-specific species sensitivity distributions for the ecological risk assessments of insecticides
Published in Ecotoxicology and environmental safety (30-09-2019)“…In the higher tiers of pesticide risk assessment, the Species Sensitivity Distribution (SSD) concept is often used to establish the effect threshold defined as…”
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Optimising environmental risk assessments: Accounting for ecosystem services helps to translate broad policy protection goals into specific operational ones for environmental risk assessments
Published in EMBO reports (01-09-2015)“…Graphical Abstract Environmental risk assessments cannot cover all conceivable risks. It is therefore necessary to translate broader policies such as…”
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Analysing chemical-induced changes in macroinvertebrate communities in aquatic mesocosm experiments: a comparison of methods
Published in Ecotoxicology (London) (01-05-2015)“…Mesocosm experiments that study the ecological impact of chemicals are often analysed using the multivariate method ‘Principal Response Curves’ (PRCs)…”
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Guidance on the assessment of the safety of feed additives for the environment
Published in EFSA journal (01-04-2019)“…This guidance document is intended to assist the applicant in the preparation and the presentation of an application, as foreseen in Article 7.6 of Regulation…”
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Acute toxicity tests with Daphnia magna, Americamysis bahia, Chironomus riparius and Gammarus pulex and implications of new EU requirements for the aquatic effect assessment of insecticides
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international (01-09-2012)“…Threshold concentrations for treatment related effects of 31 insecticides, as derived from aquatic micro-/mesocosm tests, were used to calibrate the predictive…”
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Fungicide Risk Assessment for Aquatic Ecosystems: Importance of Interspecific Variation, Toxic Mode of Action, and Exposure Regime
Published in Environmental science & technology (01-10-2009)“…The risk assessment of fungicides in Europe uses information from ecotoxicity studies performed on vertebrates, invertebrates, and primary producers, but not…”
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Priorities to improve the ecological risk assessment and management for pesticides in surface water
Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management (01-07-2013)“…ABSTRACT This article deals with prospective and retrospective ecological risk assessment (ERA) procedures for pesticides in surface waters as carried out…”
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Assessing the relevance of ecotoxicological studies for regulatory decision making
Published in Integrated environmental assessment and management (01-07-2017)“…ABSTRACT Regulatory policies in many parts of the world recognize either the utility of or the mandate that all available studies be considered in…”
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