Journal ArticleUnknown
ECOTOXICOLOGY OF PESTICIDES IN THE TROPICAL PADDY FIELD ECOSYSTEM
Authors
Author Affiliations
University of Malaya, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology
Published InEnvironmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Year1997
Citations10
Abstract
In tropical countries rice has been identified as one of the crops that is particularly susceptible to the negative impacts of pesticide use. In addition to the physicochemical nature of the pesticide, tropical climatic conditions and agricultural practices play important roles in determining the fate and distribution of pesticides in the tropical paddy field ecosystem. The assessment of ecotoxicological effects of pesticides in the tropical paddy field ecosystem has been based primarily on acute lethality tests conducted on fish species commonly found in paddy fields. The effects of pesticides in the paddy field ecosystem on other nontarget organisms ranging from microalgae and cyanobacteria to paddy field crabs have also been investigated, although such studies are limited. As a means to…
View at Publisher
BORR does not host full-text PDFs. The button above takes you to the original publisher.