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Effects of Pesticides on Amphibians and Reptiles in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

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General concern about the effects of insecticides and herbicides on nontarget amphibians and reptiles has been expressed in the world’s developed countries, where pesticides have been widely used, especially for agricultural pest control. Impact of usage in the United Kingdom on amphibians has been addressed in a series of papers by Cooke (1972a,b, 1977, 1981), and the toxicological literature covering this group has been reviewed by Power et al. (1989). Effects of pesticides and other environmental contaminants on reptiles, based mainly on work in the United States, was reviewed by Hall (1980), who showed that reptiles are susceptible to such organochlorine (OC) insecticides as DDT, dieldrin, heptachlor, and toxaphene. He later concluded that toxicity testing of amphibians and reptiles for purposes of chemical registration was difficult because of intraspecific variation (Hall and Henry 1992).

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Lambert, M.R.K. (1997). Effects of Pesticides on Amphibians and Reptiles in Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Ware, G.W. (eds) Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol 150. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2278-1_2

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