Pesticides

Pesticides

Any chemical or substance used to kill or inhibit the growth of pests that damage or interfere with the growth of crops, shrubs, tress, timber and other vegetation useful to humans.

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Ecological risk assessment

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The application of a formal framework, analytical process, or model to estimate the effects of human actions(s) on a natural resource and to interpret the significance of those effects in light of ...

Ecology

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The relationship of living things to one another and their environment, or the study of such relationships.

Economic poisons

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Chemicals used to control pests and to defoliate cash crops such as cotton.

Ecosphere

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The "bio-bubble" that contains life on earth, in surface waters, and in the air. (See: biosphere.)

Ecosystem

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

The interacting system of a biological community and its non-living environmental surroundings.

Ecosystem structure

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Attributes related to the instantaneous physical state of an ecosystem; examples include species population density, species richness or evenness, and standing crop biomass.

Ecotone

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

A habitat created by the juxtaposition of distinctly different habitats; an edge habitat; or an ecological zone or boundary where two or more ecosystems meet.