Pesticides and practices used in conventional farming are known to negatively affect the environment, including natural attenuation mechanisms and ecosystem functions. Effort is put in raising public awareness and promoting other farming systems like integrated pest management (IPM) and organic farming, that are strictly regulated concerning pesticide use and their environmental impact. Microbial communities inhabiting soils are responsible for important ecosystem functions like nutrient cycling and pathogen control, but are largely neglected in risk assessment studies due to complexities in assessing their response to pesticide application. Our study aims at filling such gaps by analysing the differential responses of soil microbial communities when exposed to commonly used pesticides in conventional farming, IPM and organic farming.
Pertile, G., Vasileiadis, S., Ferrarini, A., Fornasier, F., Suciu, N., Lamastra, L., Puglisi, E., Karpouzas, D., Trevisan, M., Soil microbial community responses to common pesticides of conventional, IPM and organic farming, Poster, in Proceedings of the York Symposium on Pesticides Behaviour in Soils, Water and Air, York, (York, 02-04 September 2013), University of York, York 2013: 1-2 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/63727]
Soil microbial community responses to common pesticides of conventional, IPM and organic farming
Pertile, Giorgia;Vasileiadis, Sotirios;Ferrarini, Andrea;Suciu, Nicoleta;Lamastra, Lucrezia;Puglisi, Edoardo;Karpouzas, Dimitrios;Trevisan, Marco
2013
Abstract
Pesticides and practices used in conventional farming are known to negatively affect the environment, including natural attenuation mechanisms and ecosystem functions. Effort is put in raising public awareness and promoting other farming systems like integrated pest management (IPM) and organic farming, that are strictly regulated concerning pesticide use and their environmental impact. Microbial communities inhabiting soils are responsible for important ecosystem functions like nutrient cycling and pathogen control, but are largely neglected in risk assessment studies due to complexities in assessing their response to pesticide application. Our study aims at filling such gaps by analysing the differential responses of soil microbial communities when exposed to commonly used pesticides in conventional farming, IPM and organic farming.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.