Ecological risk assessment of pesticides in the Mediterranean region. The need for crop-specific scenarios

Ramos, C.; Carbonell, Gregoria; Baudı́n, J.Ma. Garcı́a; Tarazona, José V.

doi:10.1016/s0048-9697(99)00496-9

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“…Additionally, intensive livestock and the use of manure in agriculture are frequent in these regions (Ramos and Martinez-Casasnovas 2006). The specific climatic and agricultural conditions of the Mediterranean region should be considered in the environmental risk assessment of agrochemicals and veterinary drugs (Ramos et al 2000;Montforts and Tarazona 2003;Schneider et al 2007).…”

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Semifield assessment of the runoff potential and environmental risk of the parasiticide drug ivermectin under Mediterranean conditions

Fernández

Porcel

Alonso

et al. 2011

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Semifield assessment of the runoff potential and environmental risk of the parasiticide drug ivermectin under Mediterranean conditions

Fernández

Porcel

Alonso

et al. 2011

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…It was intended to serve later as a basis for generating CFD models of the behaviour of spray drift during treatment applications. the use of plant protection products (Ramos et al, 2000).…”

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Description of the airflow produced by an air-assisted sprayer during pesticide applications to citrus

Salcedo¹,

Garcerá²,

Granell³

et al. 2015

Span. j. agric. res.

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Atmospheric drift of plant protection products is considered a major source of air pollution during pesticide applications. Citrus protection against pests and diseases usually requires application of these products using air-blast sprayers. Many authors have emphasized the influence of vegetation on the risk of spray drift. The aim of this work was to describe in detail how the airflow from an air-blast sprayer behaves when it reaches citrus trees and, in particular, the effect that the tree canopy has on this flow. Tests were conducted at a commercial citrus orchard with conventional machinery, placed parallel to a row of trees. Air velocity and direction was measured using a 3D ultrasonic anemometer in 225 points situated in three parallel planes perpendicular to the equipment. The stability of the airflow at each measuring point was studied and the mean velocities were graphically represented. Two vortexes, one behind the canopy, and another over the tree, have been deducted and never been reported before. Both may have an important influence on the trajectories of the sprayed droplets and, as a consequence, on the way in which plant protection products are diffused into the atmosphere. Observed turbulence intensities were higher than in similar experiments conducted in other tree crops, which may be attributable to the higher air volume generated by the machinery used for citrus protection and to the higher foliage density of citrus orchards.

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“…Rice is commonly cultivated in Europe in large river basins. Such basins could be located close to urban areas such as the Axios river basin in northern Greece, or within zones of high ecological value such as the National Park of Donana and the Lagoon of Valencia in Spain (Ramos et al 2000). Monitoring studies conducted in the main rice cultivation areas in Greece (Papadopoulou-Mourkidou et al 2004b), Italy (Readman et al 1993;Capri et al 1999) and Portugal (Cerejeira et al 2003) revealed the presence of relatively high concentrations of rice-applied herbicides in related SW systems.…”

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Risk analysis of pesticides applied to rice paddies using RICEWQ 1.6.2v and RIVWQ 2.02

Karpouzas

Capri

2006

Paddy Water Environ

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Rice is commonly cultivated in Southern Europe in large river basins where the extensive use of herbicides may impact water quality at basin scale level. Consequently, pesticide risk assessment would be more relevant when considering a rice cultivation area as a whole. Accordingly, two watershed-scale scenarios were developed to represent the specific agronomic, water and pesticide management practices of rice cultivation in Greece. These scenarios were utilized for the parameterization of the rice water quality model (RICEWQ) 1.6.2v and the surface water model river water quality (RIVWQ) 2.02. in order to predict the environmental concentrations of pesticides in groundwater (GW) and surface water (SW) systems within a rice area. The annual average pesticide concentrations at 1 m depth, predicted by RICEWQ were used to assess the risk for GW contamination. The predicted exposure concentrations derived through modelling and eco-toxicological endpoints obtained from the literature, were used to calculate acute and long-term toxicity exposure ratios (TERs) for aquatic organisms. Application of these scenarios with RICEWQ and RIVWQ models enabled us to perform a risk assessment exercise for several herbicides registered in Greece for use in rice. Such a risk assessment approach could be further scaled up to represent a whole rice cultivated basin in order to be used for regulatory purposes.

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Ecological risk assessment of pesticides in the Mediterranean region. The need for crop-specific scenarios

Cited by 37 publications

References 6 publications

Semifield assessment of the runoff potential and environmental risk of the parasiticide drug ivermectin under Mediterranean conditions

Semifield assessment of the runoff potential and environmental risk of the parasiticide drug ivermectin under Mediterranean conditions

Description of the airflow produced by an air-assisted sprayer during pesticide applications to citrus

Risk analysis of pesticides applied to rice paddies using RICEWQ 1.6.2v and RIVWQ 2.02

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