Pesticides most important barrier for the recovery of biodiversity on farmland
Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 07:49
in Mathematics & Economics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the early nineties the EU has implemented policies to reduce the dramatic negative effects of the use of pesticides on farmland. Nevertheless, a Europe wide study showed that insecticides and fungicides still had major negative effects on wild plant and animal species on arable farms.