Predicting the aquatic risk of realistic pesticide mixtures to species assemblages in Portuguese river basins

作     者：Emília Silva Michiel A.Daam Maria José Cerejeira 

作者机构：Centro de Engenharia dos Biossistemas (CEER) Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA) University of Lisbon (UL) Tapada da Ajuda1349-017 Lisbon Portugal 

出 版 物：《Journal of Environmental Sciences》 (环境科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第27卷第5期

页      面：12-20页

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学科分类：082803[工学-农业生物环境与能源工程] 08[工学] 0828[工学-农业工程] 

主　　题：Pesticides Mixtures Risk assessment Multi substance potentially affected fraction Surface waters 

摘      要：Although pesticide regulatory tools are mainly based on individual substances, aquatic ecosystems are usually exposed to multiple pesticides from their use on the variety of crops within the catchment of a river. This study estimated the impact of measured pesticide mixtures in surface waters from 2002 and 2008 within three important Portuguese river basins（＇Mondego＇, ＇Sado＇ and ＇Tejo＇） on primary producers, arthropods and fish by toxic pressure calculation. Species sensitivity distributions（SSDs）, in combination with mixture toxicity models, were applied. Considering the differences in the responses of the taxonomic groups as well as in the pesticide exposures that these organisms experience, variable acute multi-substance potentially affected fractions（ms PAFs） were obtained. The median msP AF for primary producers and arthropods in surface waters of all river basins exceeded 5%, the cut-off value used in the prospective SSD approach for deriving individual environmental quality standards. A ranking procedure identified various photosystem II inhibiting herbicides, with oxadiazon having the relatively largest toxic effects on primary producers, while the organophosphorus insecticides, chlorfenvinphos and chlorpyrifos, and the organochloride endosulfan had the largest effects on arthropods and fish, respectively. These results ensure compliance with European legislation with regard to ecological risk assessment and management of pesticides in surface waters.