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Sandra Afonso, Juliana Nogueira, Carlos Cavaleiro, Fernanda M. L. Ferreira and Matilde Moreira-Santos
Essential oils (EOs) from Thymus mastichina (EO-thyme) and Helichrysum italicum (EO-curry) have wide commercial applications, but little is known about their ecotoxicity to aquatic life. We evaluated the lethal toxicity of both EOs toward standard freshw...
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Chaitanya Prasad Nath, Ravi Gopal Singh, Vijay K. Choudhary, Debarati Datta, Rajiv Nandan and Sati Shankar Singh
Weeds are the most severe and widespread biological constraint on agricultural production systems and cause damage to cropped and non-cropped lands. They reduce crop yield and degrade the quality of the produce, besides raising the cost of production. Th...
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Marija Kovacevic, Nikolina Stjepanovic, Luca Zelic and ?eljka Loncaric
Tebuconazole (TEB), a widely used triazole fungicide, is effective against soil-borne and foliar fungal pathogens. Toxicants can exhibit varying effects depending on the life stage of organisms, although standard toxicity tests typically focus on adult i...
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Diana Larisa Roman, Mariana Adina Matica, Alecu Ciorsac, Bianca Vanesa Boros and Adriana Isvoran
(1) Background: The use of pesticides, although needed to protect crops and increase production, represents an environmental and human health issue. Therefore, measures must be taken in order to develop a better understanding of the risks involved in the...
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Pinar Arslan and Aysel Çaglan Günal
Fipronil is widely used against insects in agriculture and ectoparasites in domestic areas and veterinary medicine. However, fipronil may influence non-target species as a result of the contamination of aquatic ecosystems. The present study aimed to inve...
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Anna Altmanninger, Verena Brandmaier, Bernhard Spangl, Edith Gruber, Eszter Takács, Mária Mörtl, Szandra Klátyik, András Székács and Johann G. Zaller
Glyphosate is the most widely used active ingredient (AI) in glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) worldwide and is also known to affect a variety of soil organisms. However, we know little about how the effects of glyphosate AIs differ from those of GBHs t...
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Marija Kovacevic, Nikolina Stjepanovic, Luca Zelic and ?eljka Loncaric
Azoxystrobin (AZO) is widely used to prevent and treat fungal diseases in important crops but can also impact non-target organisms, including mammals, amphibians, aquatic, and soil organisms. Collembolans play important roles in ecosystems as decomposers...
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Ieva Me?aka, Arta Kronberga, Marta Berga, Laura Kalane, Laura Pastare, Gundars Skudrin? and Ilva Nakurte
The extensive application of synthetic insecticides and herbicides over the past 50 years has led to a number of problems, including negative effects on non-target organisms and the evolution of pesticide-resistant pests. As an alternative means of pest ...
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Waqas Mohy-Ud-Din, Muhammad Javed Akhtar, Safdar Bashir, Hafiz Naeem Asghar, Muhammad Farrakh Nawaz and Feng Chen
Glyphosate is a non-selective herbicide that is used to control perennial weeds in agriculture. However, its vast application may result in glyphosate residues in the food chain. Due to its toxicity to non-target organisms, glyphosate-contaminated soils ...
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Daniela Correia, Inês Domingues, Melissa Faria and Miguel Oliveira
Fluoxetine is an antidepressant widely used to treat depressive and anxiety states. Due to its mode of action in the central nervous system (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)), it becomes toxic to non-target organisms, leading to changes that...
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