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Environmental risk assessment of pesticides in the River Madre de Dios, Costa Rica using PERPEST, SSD, and msPAF models
- Source :
- Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25(14), 13254-13269, Environmental Science and Pollution Research 25 (2018) 14
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This study assesses the ecological risks (ERA) of pesticides to aquatic organisms in the River Madre de Dios (RMD), which receives surface runoff water from banana, pineapple, and rice plantations on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Water samples collected over 2 years at five sites in the RMD revealed a total of 26 pesticides. Their toxicity risk to aquatic organisms was assessed using three recent ERA models. (1) The PERPEST model showed a high probability (>50 %) of clear toxic effects of pesticide mixtures on algae, macrophytes, zooplankton, macroinvertebrates, and community metabolism and a low probability (
- Subjects :
- Costa Rica
Environmental Risk Assessment
Aquatic Organisms
Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Risk Assessment
Toxicology
chemistry.chemical_compound
Bromacil
Rivers
Aquatic plant
Aquatic pollution
Tropical ecotoxicity
Ecotoxicology
Animals
Environmental Chemistry
Pesticides
Ecosystem
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Mixture toxicity
WIMEK
Herbicides
Central America
General Medicine
Pesticide
Models, Theoretical
Aquatische Ecologie en Waterkwaliteitsbeheer
Pollution
Macrophyte
Terbufos
ERA
chemistry
Environmental chemistry
Environmental science
Fish kill
Agricultural runoff
Water quality
Water Pollutants, Chemical
Environmental Monitoring
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09441344
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 14
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Science and Pollution Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6d2c4982963531f2e71a7a24d8e5fdad