The Internet portal of 12 stol February 2010 presents us with an AP article about the consequences of Sprays for biodiversity. It should be noted here that the study focused primarily on cereal boxes applies, that is a form of land use, in the South is now relatively rare. It is likely, however, that applies to the fruit and wine, and especially for corn fields about the same. Here are some excerpts:
study: Biodiversity is halved by spray
The pesticides used in agriculture for a Europe-wide study of the main reason for a massive decline in biodiversity on farmland and the environment.
While ecologically processed on a field about 1,000 different species would occur, be it on a field treated with pesticides, only about half as many, Professor Teja Tscharntke said of the University of Göttingen. The agricultural ecologist who participated in the study in eight Western and Eastern European countries. For the study were 150 wheat fields in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, Spain, Poland, Estonia and France have been studied, said Tscharntke.
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the objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of individual factors on the diversity of plants and animals - find - especially beetles and ground-breeding farm birds.
[...] The result was clear, said Prof. Tscharntke: The main reason for the reduction of animal and plant diversity are pesticides such as insecticides or fungicides. The organic management of individual fields without pesticides also affects it but positive effect on the diversity of plants and beetles. Breeding birds on the other hand benefited little. In fact, like many mammals, butterflies and bees, day-they lived in large landscape areas. So be negatively affected when used in the neighborhood organically farmed fields pesticides. Tscharntke conclusion: "Who wants to biodiversity, must renounce the use of pesticides as much as possible." dpa
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