A two years field experiment to assess the impact of two fungicides on earthworm communities and their recovery

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Joël AmosséC Pelosi

Abstract

Recent EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) reports highlighted that the ecological risk assessment of pesticides needed to go further by taking more into account the impacts of chemicals on biodiversity under field conditions. We assessed the effects of two commercial formulations of fungicides separately and in mixture, i.e., Cuprafor Micro® (containing 500 g kg-1 copper oxychloride) at 4 (C1, corresponding to 3.1 mg kg-1 dry soil of copper) and 40 kg ha-1 (C10), and Swing® Gold (50 g L-1 epoxiconazole EPX and 133 g L-1 dimoxystrobin DMX) at one (D1, 5.81 10-2 and 1.55 10-1 mg kg-1 dry soil of EPX and DMX, respectively) and ten times (D10) the recommended field rate, on earthworms at 1, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months after the application following the international ISO standard no. 11268-3 to determine the effects on earthworms in field situations. The D10 treatment significantly reduced the species diversity (Shannon diversity index, 54% of the control), anecic abundance (29% of the control), and total biomass (49% of the control) over the first 18 months of experiment. The Shannon diversity index also decreased in the mixture treatment (both fungicides at the recommended dose) at 1 and 6 months after the first application (68% o...Continue Reading

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