Are micro-/mesocosm studies really not suitable for the risk assessment of plant protection products? A comment on Reiber et al. (2022)

Abstract Background A recently published article, by Reiber et al., on the representativity of macroinvertebrate communities in outdoor micro- or mesocosm studies, used as a higher tier tool in the environmental risk assessment of plant protection products (PPPs) in the EU, concluded that ‘micro-/me...

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Main Authors: Udo Hommen, Marie Brown, Eric Bruns, Klaus Peter Ebke, Ivo Roessink, Tido Strauss, Nadine Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2024-04-01
Series:Environmental Sciences Europe
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-024-00890-0