There is a growing awareness among farmers about the importance of soil for sustaining
crop production and providing beneficial ecosystem services. Over the last 2 decades …

Agricultural pesticide use and its associated environmental harms is widespread throughout
the world. Efforts to mitigate this harm have largely focused on reducing pesticide …

In recent years, emerging contaminants (eg pesticides and their metabolites,
pharmaceuticals, personal and house care products, life-style compounds, food additives …

Microplastics are small plastic fragments that are widely distributed in marine and terrestrial
environments. While the soil ecosystem represents a large reservoir for plastic, research so …

Although nano-sized zero-valent iron (nZVI) has been used for several years for remediation
of contaminated soils and aquifers, only a limited number of studies have investigated …

The avoidance behavior is regarded as the method that provides first hand information
about the behavior of an organism in the presence of contaminants in the soil. Very little data …

Effects of chlorpyrifos, carbofuran, mancozeb and their formulated products on survival,
growth and reproduction of the tropical earthworm Perionyx excavatus were investigated in …

Little is known about the non-target effects of glyphosate active ingredients (GLY) versus
glyphosate-based herbicide (GBH) formulations on soil organisms, and whether effects are …

The use of long-residual herbicides can have adverse effects on terrestrial ecosystems. This
study assessed the acute and chronic toxicity and avoidance behavior of Eisenia andrei …

Abstract Background Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) are among the most often used
pesticides. The hundreds of GBHs used worldwide consist of the active ingredient (AI) …