Pesticide Risk Assessment for Pollinators (PDF)

Pollinators play a vital role in ecosystem health and are
essential to ensuring food security. With declines in both managed
and wild pollinator populations in recent years, scientists and
regulators have sought answers to this problem and have explored
implementing steps to protect pollinator populations now and for
the future. Pesticide Risk Assessment for Pollinators
focuses on the role pesticides play in impacting bee populations
and looks to develop a risk assessment process, along with the data
to inform that process, to better assess the potential risks that
can accompany the use of pesticide products.

Pesticide Risk Assessment for Pollinators opens with two
chapters that provide a biological background of both Apis
and non-Apis species of pollinators. Chapters then present
an overview of the general regulatory risk assessment process and
decision-making processes. The book then discusses the core
elements of a risk assessment, including exposure estimation,
laboratory testing, and field testing. The book concludes
with chapters on statistical and modeling tools, and proposed
additional research that may be useful in developing the ability to
assess the impacts of pesticide use on pollinator populations.

Summarizing the current state of the science surrounding risk
assessment for Apis and non-Apis species,
Pesticide Risk Assessment for Pollinators is a timely work
that will be of great use to the environmental science and
agricultural research communities.

* Assesses pesticide risk to native and managed pollinators

* Summarizes the state of the science in toxicity testing and
risk assessment

* Provides valuable biological overviews of both Apis and
non-Apis pollinators

* Develops a plausible overall risk assessment framework for
regulatory decision making

* Looks towards a globally harmonized approach for pollinator
toxicity and risk assessment