LRI ECO50: Getting Real – Assessing spatial and temporal variability in species assemblages and potential implications for chemical risk assessments

Regulatory frameworks and policy makers, particularly in the plant protection products sector, are increasingly requesting community-to-ecosystem level assessments of potential effects of chemicals in the environment. This project will increase the scientific knowledge of community sensitivity, and how this varies in time and place, thereby bringing the potential to tailor risk assessments according to receiving-environment vulnerability and to target risk mitigation measures where they are most needed.

Funding: €400,000 total 

Duration: 3 years 

Research Authority due date: 23.8.18