Data characteristics and pesticides traits (e.g., pH dependency) are expected to influence the accuracy with which the transferability of terrestrial field dissipation studies to other geographical regions are predicted. In Europe, a new version of the EFSA GIS database has been published recently with considerable modification for several environmental parameters. Beside EFSA data, a huge amount of different GIS data on EU or country level have been used in the context of pesticide registration (e.g., MARS, CRU, worldclim). In this talk, we analyze different available GIS data from Europe in terms of comparability, map resolution, and transferability, and we assess the impact on prediction of similarity of TFD between North America and Europe. We see the need to establish a mutual quality- and version-control for GIS data and agreed methods in the context of pesticide registration.

What matters for predicting the similarity of TFD studies: Techniques, data, or pesticide characteristics?

246th National Meeting (2013)

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