Pesticides and Ecosystems
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 32 (7) , 595-600
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1308603
Abstract
Pesticides may reduce environmental quality and influence essential ecosystem functioning by reducing species diversity; modifying food chains; changing patterns of energy flow and nutrient cycling (including nitrogen); reducing soil, water, and air quality; and changing the stability and resilience of ecosystems.Keywords
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