In the last ten years considerable effort was put into the development of population models for use in risk assessment. While the �technical� side of the models has reached a rather high level, one key question still is how to address biologically relevant endpoints in the risk assessment of chemicals and how to integrate population level risk assessment into the existing risk assessment framework. Formulating protection goals, such as the long-term survival of a population, is comparatively easy. However, it is much more difficult to find a practical and suitable way how to address them within a risk assessment with a population model. We therefore investigate what needs to be considered in regulatory risk assessment with such models, how relevant species- or crop-specific scenarios may be used and how - in contrast to conventional risk assessment - the same level of protection across species can be ensured.

Scenarios, scales, and endpoints: Population models as the bridge between ecology and regulatory risk assessment

248th National Meeting (2014)

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