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Dayong Tian1, Haichen Mao2, Huichao Lv2
1College of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Anyang Institute of Technology, Anyang 455000, Henan, PR China; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2G3, Alberta, Canada.
Abstract:
Ecological risk assessments for mixtures have attracted considerable attention. In this study, 38 pesticides in the real environment were taken as objects and their toxicities to different organisms from three trophic levels were employed to assess the ecological risk of the mixture. The first tier assessment was based on the CA effect and the obtained sum of risk quotients (SRQspecies-CA) were 3.06-9.22. The second tier assessment was based on non-CA effects and the calculated SRQspecies-TU are 5.37-9.29 using joint effects (TUsum) as modified coefficients, which is higher than SRQspecies-CA and indicates that ignoring joint effects might run the risk of underestimating the actual impact of pesticide mixtures. Due to the influences of synergistic and antagonistic effects, risk contribution of components to mixture risks based on non-CA effects are different from those based on the CA effect. Moreover, it was found that the top 8 dominating components explained 95.5%-99.8% of mixture risks in this study. The dominating components are similar in the two tiers for a given species. Accordingly, a novel two-tiered approach was proposed to assess the ecological risks of mixtures based on joint effects. This study provides new insights for ecological risk assessments with the consideration of joint effects of components in the pesticide mixtures.
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