Abstract:Widely used in Brazilian agricultural fields, the insecticide fipronil acts in the arthropods’ nervous system of target and non-target organisms. The present study aimed to estimate fipronil ecological risk to soil organisms, on both natural and artificial soils from tropical environments. For risk calculations, a tiered approach was used. At the screening level (TIER I) data was obtained from the literature and laboratory experiments. For the intermediate level (TIER II), species sensitivity distributions (SS… Show more
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