Jun 182013
Agricultural chemicals affect invertebrates in streams and soil, even at "safe" levels.
from nature
"Agricultural pesticides have been linked to widespread invertebrate biodiversity loss in two new research papers.
"Pesticide use has sharply reduced the regional biodiversity of stream invertebrates, such as mayflies and dragonflies, in Europe and Australia, finds a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1.
"Previous research has shown similar decreases in individual streams, but the study by Mikhail Beketov, an aquatic ecologist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues analysed the effects of pesticides over broad regions. …"
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