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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 273, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128582
Keywords
Pesticides; Metolachlor; Cyantraniliprole; Chlorantraniliprole; Dicamba; 2,4-D
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- Canadian First Research Excellence Fund - Food From Thought Program
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grant Program
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Pesticides applied on agricultural land can impact aquatic ecosystems through runoff or leaching, with the study showing varying effects on aquatic plants and mayfly larvae. Different herbicides and insecticides showed different levels of toxicity towards the tested aquatic organisms, with potential latent effects observed in the study.
Pesticides applied to agricultural land can enter aquatic ecosystems through runoff or leaching during precipitation events. In a lotic system, these events result in a pulse of exposure to biota living in these systems. The concentration of pesticide increases, peaks, and then gradually declines, and this pulsed exposure may occur multiple times over the course of a growing season. The dynamic nature of exposure to pesticides in the environment is not often mimicked in the laboratory testing of the toxicity of pesticides. The present study investigated the potential latent effects of a 24-h pulsed exposure of metolachlor, metribuzin, MCPA (2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid), MCPP (methylchlorophenoxypropionic acid or mecoprop), dicamba, and 2,4-D to the aquatic macrophyte Lemna minor followed by a 5-day recovery period. The relative sensitivity of L. minor to the herbicides were, in this decreasing order: metolachlor > metribuzin >2,4-D > MCPA > MCPP > dicamba. This study also investigated the effects of short-term exposures of the diamide insecticides cyantraniliprole and chlorantraniliprole on the survival of the larvae of the parthenogenetic mayfly Neocloeon triangulifer. The median lethal concentrations (96-h LC50s) for cyantraniliprole and chlorantraniliprole were 8.60 and 2.92 mu g/L, respectively. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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