0000000000352001
AUTHOR
Simonida Djuric
Developing and evaluating tools for assessing the impact of low-dose herbicide nicosulfuron on soil microbial diversity and functioning
Today's conventinal agriculture still relies on the general use of pesticides. Even thought this guarantees production capabilities it also causes environmental pollution having impact on non-targeted organisms. Agricultural practices have been recognized by "The European Soil Framework Directive" as a major threat for soil biodiversity. However, without taking into consideration. recent methodological advances in microbiology, pesticide regulation at EU level relying solely on simple C and N mineralization tè-sts•. ln order to cope with this ECOFUN-MICROBIODIV project .aim to develop and evaluate tools to estimate the impact of herbicide nicosulfuron on the function and population dynamic…
ECOFUN-MICROBIODIV : an FP7 European project to estimate the ecotoxicological impact of low dose pesticide application in agriculture on soil functional microbial diversity
Soil is hosting a tremendous microbial diversity playing a key-role in a number of soil ecosystemic services including nutrient cycling and filtering. ln the European Soil Framework Directive pesticides are clearly marked as one of the major threats for soil biodiversity and functioning. ln orcier to guarantee minimum effects of pesticide application on soil microbes, pesticicleregistration at EU level (Regulation 2006/388) consiclers the toxicity of pesticides ontci non targefsoil microbes by relying on carbon- and nitrcigen-mineralization tests (OECO 216, 217). However tnese tests do not provicle a comprehensive assessment of pesticides onto soil microbes.-ECOFUN-MICROBIODIV was a project…