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Environmental fate and exposure; neonicotinoids and fipronil

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research, August 2014
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Title
Environmental fate and exposure; neonicotinoids and fipronil
Published in
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, August 2014
DOI 10.1007/s11356-014-3332-7
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J.-M. Bonmatin, C. Giorio, V. Girolami, D. Goulson, D. P. Kreutzweiser, C. Krupke, M. Liess, E. Long, M. Marzaro, E. A. D. Mitchell, D. A. Noome, N. Simon-Delso, A. Tapparo

Abstract

Systemic insecticides are applied to plants using a wide variety of methods, ranging from foliar sprays to seed treatments and soil drenches. Neonicotinoids and fipronil are among the most widely used pesticides in the world. Their popularity is largely due to their high toxicity to invertebrates, the ease and flexibility with which they can be applied, their long persistence, and their systemic nature, which ensures that they spread to all parts of the target crop. However, these properties also increase the probability of environmental contamination and exposure of nontarget organisms. Environmental contamination occurs via a number of routes including dust generated during drilling of dressed seeds, contamination and accumulation in arable soils and soil water, runoff into waterways, and uptake of pesticides by nontarget plants via their roots or dust deposition on leaves. Persistence in soils, waterways, and nontarget plants is variable but can be prolonged; for example, the half-lives of neonicotinoids in soils can exceed 1,000 days, so they can accumulate when used repeatedly. Similarly, they can persist in woody plants for periods exceeding 1 year. Breakdown results in toxic metabolites, though concentrations of these in the environment are rarely measured. Overall, there is strong evidence that soils, waterways, and plants in agricultural environments and neighboring areas are contaminated with variable levels of neonicotinoids or fipronil mixtures and their metabolites (soil, parts per billion (ppb)-parts per million (ppm) range; water, parts per trillion (ppt)-ppb range; and plants, ppb-ppm range). This provides multiple routes for chronic (and acute in some cases) exposure of nontarget animals. For example, pollinators are exposed through direct contact with dust during drilling; consumption of pollen, nectar, or guttation drops from seed-treated crops, water, and consumption of contaminated pollen and nectar from wild flowers and trees growing near-treated crops. Studies of food stores in honeybee colonies from across the globe demonstrate that colonies are routinely and chronically exposed to neonicotinoids, fipronil, and their metabolites (generally in the 1-100 ppb range), mixed with other pesticides some of which are known to act synergistically with neonicotinoids. Other nontarget organisms, particularly those inhabiting soils, aquatic habitats, or herbivorous insects feeding on noncrop plants in farmland, will also inevitably receive exposure, although data are generally lacking for these groups. We summarize the current state of knowledge regarding the environmental fate of these compounds by outlining what is known about the chemical properties of these compounds, and placing these properties in the context of modern agricultural practices.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 5 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Other 4 <1%
Unknown 1113 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 194 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 174 15%
Researcher 147 13%
Student > Bachelor 129 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 59 5%
Other 161 14%
Unknown 270 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 326 29%
Environmental Science 193 17%
Chemistry 69 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 55 5%
Engineering 35 3%
Other 121 11%
Unknown 335 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 319. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 January 2024.
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#105,166
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Outputs from Environmental Science and Pollution Research
#7
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Outputs of similar age
#806
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Outputs of similar age from Environmental Science and Pollution Research
#2
of 128 outputs
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