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Herbicide risk assessments of non-target terrestrial plant communities
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 3, p e0230012 (2020), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Universität Potsdam, 2020.
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Abstract
- Plants located adjacent to agricultural fields are important for maintaining biodiversity in semi-natural landscapes. To avoid undesired impacts on these plants due to herbicide application on the arable fields, regulatory risk assessments are conducted prior to registration to ensure proposed uses of plant protection products do not present an unacceptable risk. The current risk assessment approach for these non-target terrestrial plants (NTTPs) examines impacts at the individual-level as a surrogate approach for protecting the plant community due to the inherent difficulties of directly assessing population or community level impacts. However, modelling approaches are suitable higher tier tools to upscale individual-level effects to community level. IBC-grass is a sophisticated plant community model, which has already been applied in several studies. However, as it is a console application software, it was not deemed sufficiently user-friendly for risk managers and assessors to be conveniently operated without prior expertise in ecological models. Here, we present a user-friendly and open source graphical user interface (GUI) for the application of IBC-grass in regulatory herbicide risk assessment. It facilitates the use of the plant community model for predicting long-term impacts of herbicide applications on NTTP communities. The GUI offers two options to integrate herbicide impacts: (1) dose responses based on current standard experiments (acc. to testing guidelines) and (2) based on specific effect intensities. Both options represent suitable higher tier options for future risk assessments of NTTPs as well as for research on the ecological relevance of effects.<br />Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, 874
- Subjects :
- Man-Computer Interface
Computer and Information Sciences
Internodes
Statistical methods
Science
Social Sciences
Plant Science
Risk Assessment
Computer Architecture
User-Computer Interface
Computer Graphics
Psychology
Graphical User Interfaces
Plant Communities
Behavior
Models, Statistical
Ecology
Animal Behavior
Herbicides
Plant Ecology
Plant Anatomy
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Statistics
Organisms
Biology and Life Sciences
Eukaryota
Agriculture
Plants
Stem Anatomy
Research and analysis methods
Monte Carlo method
Physical sciences
Grazing
Human Factors Engineering
Seeds
Engineering and Technology
Mathematical and statistical techniques
Medicine
Agrochemicals
Zoology
Mathematics
Environmental Monitoring
Research Article
User Interfaces
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 3, p e0230012 (2020), PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....207f56199eadadf8570edd9c0260bb0f
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-45999