Preferred term

7.2 Pesticide environment concentration and/or aggregated total applied toxicity

Type

Aggregated Total Applied Toxicity (ATAT) is defined as a component of risks to ecological communities based on the combined impacts to key species groups from the annual outdoor, agricultural, forestry and public health use of total pesticides in active ingredients for the following categories of pesticides: fungicides, bactericides, herbicides, insecticides, molluscicides, plant growth regulators, seed treatment fungicides, seed treatment insecticides, mineral oils, rodenticides, disinfectants, and other pesticides (not elsewhere specified); and normalized by the area of cropland (which is the sum of arable land and land under permanent crops), treated plantation forests, and reported areas applied for vector control (i.e. outdoor public health). Microbial biopesticides will not be considered among pesticide types because these are target-specific pathogens, that do not leave residues, and with modes of action that do not include contact toxicity (Ayilara et al. 2023). ATAT indicates large-scale temporal trends in how changes in pesticide use and associated toxicities are reflected in different species groups. The ATAT amalgamates the risks from applied pesticides to individual species groups as a single community effect. It is proposed that this might also be weighted based on species richness and proportional endemicities within each species group considered, following further review and testing.

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