Published in Communications Earth & Environment
Using decision support systems to schedule fungicide application based on disease risk provides similar protection to calendar-based strategies but uses 50% less fungicide, according to a global meta-analysis.
Published in FEMS microbiology ecology
The frequent exposure of agricultural soils to pesticides can lead to microbial adaptation, including the development of dedicated microbial populations that utilize the pesticide compound as a carbon and energy source. Soil from an agricultural field in Halen (Belgium) with a history of linuron exposure has been studied for its linuron-degrading b...
Published in Environmental research
Background: Though prenatal organophosphate pesticide (OP) exposure has been associated with lower intellectual quotient and behavioral disorders in childhood, factors related to later delinquency, no research has directly evaluated the impact of OPs on delinquency. Objective: To evaluate the association between prenatal and childhood OP exposure a...
Biocontrol agents (BCAs) are commonly sprayed on flowering pipfruit trees to prevent them from getting infected by various pathogens. By entomovectoring, BCAs can be directly delivered onto the flowers. However, we currently lack knowledge on the distribution dynamics of BCAs by pollinators. Here, managed bees, both bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) ...
status: published
Published in Cahiers Agricultures
Au Mali, l’usage des pesticides sur la culture de coton constitue un réel problème de santé publique et pour l’environnement. Cette étude porte sur les risques potentiels correspondant à la « dangerosité » des matières actives présentes dans les pesticides distribués pour le coton. Nous avons recensé 174 pesticides homologués par le Comité sahélien...
The migration and fate of pesticides in natural environments is highly complex. At the hillslope scale, the quantification of contaminant fluxes and concentrations requires a physically based model. This class of model has recently been extended to include coupling between the surface and the subsurface domains for both the water flow and solute tr...
Cet article de synthèse, écrit dans le cadre des derniers travaux de la section « Risques et société » de la Société francophone de santé et environnement (SFSE), s’inspire de l’ensemble des témoignages apportés par les parties prenantes qui ont accepté d’alimenter le débat sur la diversité des sources d’information sur les pesticides et son effet ...
Veterinary drugs, such as coccidiostats and anthelmintics are routinely administered in extensive animal husbandry, finding their way into the aquatic environment through urine and/or feces of treated animals kept outdoors or by the application of contaminated liquid manure on agricultural fields and subsequent mechanisms of surface run-off, leachi...
While the emerging amphibian disease chytridiomycosis is causing dramatic and ongoing biodiversity losses worldwide, sustainable strategies to mitigate this global threat to amphibians are currently missing. We here propose a conceptual framework for a novel biological mitigation strategy based on the increasing evidence that naturally occurring mi...
