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New Challenges for the Ecological Risk Assessment of Plant Protection Products to Soil Organisms in the EU

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Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions (EMCEI 2017)

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Ecological risk assessment of Plant Protection Products (PPPs) in the EU faces new and interesting challenges, and the soil compartment is no exception.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Centre for Functional Ecology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    José Paulo Sousa

  2. Federal Environment Agency, UBA, Dessau-Roßlau, Germany

    Silvia Pieper

  3. European Food Safety Authority, Parma, Italy

    Maria Arena

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  1. Sfax National School of Engineering, University of Sfax Sfax National School of Engineering, Sfax, Tunisia

    Amjad Kallel

  2. Higher Instit. of Biotechnol. of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Mohamed Ksibi

  3. Sfax National School of Engineering, University of Sfax Sfax National School of Engineering, Sfax, Tunisia

    Hamed Ben Dhia

  4. Springer Nature , Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Nabil Khélifi

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Sousa, J.P., Pieper, S., Arena, M. (2018). New Challenges for the Ecological Risk Assessment of Plant Protection Products to Soil Organisms in the EU. In: Kallel, A., Ksibi, M., Ben Dhia, H., Khélifi, N. (eds) Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions. EMCEI 2017. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70548-4_3

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