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Total Authors: 2
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Biosci, Dept Biol, BR-13506900 Sao Paulo - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 1
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| Document type: | Review article |
| Source: | WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION; v. 226, n. 3 MAR 2015. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 1 |
| Abstract | |
Diplopods play an important role in the nutrients cycling and soil aeration, keeping the soil healthy and productive, integrating a beneficial macrofauna that may be liable to the action of chemicals applied in order to control and eliminate other organisms considered harmful to crops. However, diplopods can also become the target of these pesticides when they occur in large populations that invade urban areas and damage home gardens and commercial plantations. Given the fine line that makes diplopods be considered ecologically beneficial or economically troublesome, this study aims to review the action of different pesticides on these organisms, both when they are mere scapegoats and when they are the villains. Given these data, it lastly discussed the feasibility of using chemical control methods. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/24562-5 - Anatomy and morphology of the diplopod Gymnostreptus olivaceus (Diplopoda, Spirostreptidae) nervous system and evaluation of the insecticide deltamethrin effects on this system |
| Grantee: | Annelise Francisco |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |