Long-term assessment of insecticides treatments in West Africa: aquatic entomofauna
| Autor: | Laurent Yaméogo, J Samman, D Tholley, F Kondé, Davide Calamari, Giuseppe Crosa, K Nabé |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Insecticides
Food Chain Environmental Engineering Range (biology) Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Fauna Population Dynamics Biology Insect Control Food chain Environmental monitoring Water Movements Animals Environmental Chemistry Ecosystem Trophic level Invertebrate Ecology Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine General Chemistry Invertebrates Pollution Africa Western Onchocerca volvulus Vector (epidemiology) Water Pollutants Chemical Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Chemosphere. 44:1759-1773 |
| ISSN: | 0045-6535 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0045-6535(00)00496-3 |
| Popis: | For the control of the Onchocerca volvulus vector in West Africa, up to 18,000 km of rivers from 1975 and up to 50,000 km from 1989 had been partly sprayed weekly with insecticides as part of the Onchocerciasis Control Programme (OCP). To evaluate the possible short-term and long-term effects of the application of insecticides on the non-target fauna, an aquatic monitoring programme was set up during the initial phase of the programme. By analysing the invertebrate data, which were collected using various sampling strategies from four different countries between 1977 and 1996, this paper evaluates the long-term changes of the invertebrate populations with respect to their taxonomic composition as well as their trophic structures. The discussed results of the applied numerical analysis strategy suggest that neither the taxonomic nor the trophic structures are greatly altered from the range of biological, flow-related variation that normally occurs in the studied river systems. This allows us to conclude that the biological variation found here is ecologically acceptable. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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