Mechanistic and probabilistic approaches to assessing the impact of pesticide mixtures in Australian waterways

Funding: 2007: $50,000
2008: $60,000
2009: $64,100

Project Member(s): Lim, R.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (Other funds for ARC projects)
Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Projects)
NSW Department of Environment and Conservation

Start year: 2007

Summary: The effects of short- and longer-term exposures of selected Australian freshwater organisms to three previously unstudied pesticides (individually and in mixtures) will be reported and used to assess regulations concerning the concurrent application of combinations of pesticides. This progresses existing Australian leadership in water quality management using applied ecotoxicology by addressing increasing environmental realism in several dimensions: the use of local organisms from different trophic levels, the inclusion of riverine species; longer-term experimental exposures and exposure to mixtures as well as little-known single substances. In addition three new water quality guidelines will be developed. ''

Keywords: ecotoxicology, pesticides, mixtures, water quality management, environmental risk assessment, ecosystem protection,

FOR Codes: Environmental Impact Assessment, Sustainable Development, Fertilisers and Agrochemicals (Application etc.), Agricultural chemicals, Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classified, Land and water management, Sustainable Agricultural Development, Management of Gaseous Waste from Manufacturing Activities (excl. Greenhouse Gases), Coastal and Marine Management Policy, Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Land Management, Environmental assessment and monitoring, Crop and pasture production, Coastal and estuarine systems and management, Environmentally sustainable manufacturing activities, Terrestrial systems and management

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