Agrochemicals, environment, and human health

PI Devi, M Manjula, RV Bhavani - Annual Review of …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Global consumption of agrochemicals continues to rise, despite growing evidence of their
adverse effects on environmental quality and human health. The extent of increase varies …

Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

SG Potts, V Imperatriz-Fonseca, HT Ngo, MA Aizen… - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
Wild and managed pollinators provide a wide range of benefits to society in terms of
contributions to food security, farmer and beekeeper livelihoods, social and cultural values …

The city as a refuge for insect pollinators

DM Hall, GR Camilo, RK Tonietto, J Ollerton… - Conservation …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Research on urban insect pollinators is changing views on the biological value and
ecological importance of cities. The abundance and diversity of native bee species in urban …

A worldwide survey of neonicotinoids in honey

EAD Mitchell, B Mulhauser, M Mulot, A Mutabazi… - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
Growing evidence for global pollinator decline is causing concern for biodiversity
conservation and ecosystem services maintenance. Neonicotinoid pesticides have been …

Effects of neonicotinoid pesticide exposure on human health: a systematic review

AM Cimino, AL Boyles, KA Thayer… - Environmental health …, 2017‏ - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Numerous studies have identified detectable levels of neonicotinoids (neonics)
in the environment, adverse effects of neonics in many species, including mammals, and …

Environmental fate and exposure; neonicotinoids and fipronil

JM Bonmatin, C Giorio, V Girolami, D Goulson… - … science and pollution …, 2015‏ - Springer
Systemic insecticides are applied to plants using a wide variety of methods, ranging from
foliar sprays to seed treatments and soil drenches. Neonicotinoids and fipronil are among …

Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination

A Kovács‐Hostyánszki, A Espíndola… - Ecology …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Worldwide, human appropriation of ecosystems is disrupting plant–pollinator communities
and pollination function through habitat conversion and landscape homogenisation …

Global trends in bumble bee health

SA Cameron, BM Sadd - Annual review of entomology, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
Bumble bees (Bombus) are unusually important pollinators, with approximately 260 wild
species native to all biogeographic regions except sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, and New …

Residues of currently used pesticides in soils and earthworms: a silent threat?

C Pelosi, C Bertrand, G Daniele… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Critical knowledge gaps about environmental fate and unintentional effects of currently used
pesticides (CUPs) hamper the understanding and mitigation of their global impacts on …

[HTML][HTML] Insect decline, an emerging global environmental risk

JP Van Der Sluijs - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The Earth's entomofauna seems in an ongoing state of collapse. Insect decline could pose a
global risk to key insect-mediated ecosystem functions and services such as soil and …