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| Title | Fate and effects of pesticides @the landscape. A modelling approach |
| Group | Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | variable |
| Supervisor(s) | WEnR: Dr. Ir. Louise Wipfler (louise.wipfler@wur.nl)
AEW: Prof. Dr. Paul van den Brink (paul.vandenbrink@wur.nl) |
| Examiner(s) | Paul van den Brink |
| Contact info | edwin.peeters@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2021/11/12 |
| End date | 2022/11/11 |
| Description | Risk assessment at landscape scales is considered in Europe as an option to improve the realism and relevance of regulatory Environmental Risk Assessment for pesticides. Spatially distributed models can, in connection with geographical information predict emissions, exposure and environmental effects of pesticides at regional scales. This allows to quantify local risk and to assess these risks in the context of the complex, interconnected and spatially variable landscape.
As part of a collaborative project between WENR and Bayer a landscape scale model was developed ( Rummen catchment). The run-time of such landscape scale models is still considerable. Improved insight in the main drivers for finding effects of pesticide use would help to identify risk management measures, to make intelligent model run selections and to develop a metamodel. In your MSc thesis you will a look into landscape scale model outcomes and aim to find the main drivers for ecological effects on aquatic organisms using multivariate analysis. |
| Used skills | modeling, multivariate statistics |
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