Systemic insecticides (neonicotinoids and fipronil): trends, uses, mode of action and metabolites

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 22 Số 1 - Trang 5-34 - 2015
Noa Simon‐Delso1,2, V. Amaral-Rogers3, Luc Belzunces4, Jean‐Marc Bonmatin5, Madeleine Chagnon6, Craig A. Downs7, Lorenzo Furlan8, David W. Gibbons9, Chiara Giorio10, V. Girolami11, Dave Goulson12, David P. Kreutzweiser13, Christian H. Krupke14, Matthias Liess15, Elizabeth Y Long14, Melanie McField16, Pierre Mineau17, Edward A. D. Mitchell18,19, Christy A. Morrissey20, Dominique A. Noome21, Lennard Pisa2, Josef Settele22,23, John D. Stark24, Andrea Tapparo11, Hans Van Dyck25, Job van Praagh26, J.P. van der Sluijs27,2, Penelope R. Whitehorn28, Martin Wiemers22
1Centre Apicole de Recherche et Information (Belgium)
2Universiteit Utrecht / Utrecht University [Utrecht] (Heidelberglaan 8, 3584 CS Utrecht - Netherlands)
3Buglife (Bug House Hame Lame Orton Waterville PE2 5UU Peterborough - United Kingdom)
4AE - Abeilles et environnement (Avignon - France)
5CBM - Centre de biophysique moléculaire (Rue Charles Sadron 45071 ORLEANS CEDEX 2 - France)
6Département des Sciences Biologiques (Canada)
7Haereticus Environmental Laboratory (United States)
8Veneto Agricoltura (Italy)
9Centre for Conservation Science (United Kingdom)
10Department of Chemistry (University of Cambridge Dept Chemistry Cambridge CB2 1EW England - United Kingdom)
11Unipd - Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Via 8 Febbraio 2, 35122 Padova - Italy)
12School of Life Sciences (Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG - United Kingdom)
13Canadian Forest Service (1055 du P.E.P.S. P.O. Box 3800 Québec - Canada)
14Department of Entomology (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA - United States)
15UFZ - Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research ( 04318 Leipzig, Germany - Germany)
16Smithsonian Institution (PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012 - United States)
17Pierre Mineau Consulting (Canada)
18Jardin Botanique de Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
19Laboratory of Soil Biology (Institute of Biology, CF 2000 Neuchâtel - Switzerland)
20U of S - University of Saskatchewan [Saskatoon] (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada - Canada)
21Kijani (Netherlands)
22Department of Community Ecology (Theodor Lieser Str 4, 06120 Halle - Germany)
23iDiv - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig - Germany)
24WSU - Washington State University (Pullman, WA - United States)
25UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (Place de l'Université 1 - 1348 Louvain-La-Neuve - Belgium)
26Scientific Advisor (Germany)
27UiB - University of Bergen (Universitetet i Bergen | Postboks 7800, NO-5020 Bergen - Norway)
28School of Natural Sciences (United Kingdom)

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