Environmental & Analytical Toxicology

Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA, Netherlands

Publications

• Research Article   
  Predicting Plant Communities in the Vicinity of Wheat Crops and Vineyards in Europe using Participatory Modeling
  Author(s): Gertie H.P. Arts*, M. Van Eupen, S.M. Hennekens and Peter J.F.M. Verweij
  
  The risk assessment of pesticide use on non-target terrestrial plants is currently based on standardized greenhouse tests with a limited number of mostly crop plant species. Higher tier tests or assessments of any kind (e.g., field, semi-field, landscape studies) are not standardized. In this study we explored an approach to inform such a higher level by collecting datasets and information at European scale to characterize the vegetation communities that are likely to grow in the off-field areas of wheat and vine crops. The EUNIS (European Nature Information System) habitat classification was used to identify eight man-made habitats considered characteristic of the off-field areas in the European agricultural landscape. These habitats are spatially identified on the bases of a modelling process where vegetation plots, taken from the European Vegetation Archive, were used a.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2161-0525.2021.s5.001

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