Ecological risk assessments often miss the point in terms of managing the impacts of chemicals (pesticides included) on ecological properties and processes that matter for (and are valued by) the public � a message emphasized in the Silver Book (2009 publication of the US National Academies on Science and Decisions) and an Opinion from the European Commission's scientific advisory committees in 2012 on Making Risk Assessment More Relevant for Risk management.  This paper will argue that making ecological risk assessments more management- and value- relevant requires a combination of ecosystem service and mechanistic modelling approaches.

Making ecological risk assessment more relevant requires mechanistic models

248th National Meeting (2014)

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