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Moving beyond honeybee-centric pesticide risk assessments to protect all pollinators

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NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 3, Issue 10, Pages 1373-1375

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0987-y

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  1. Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) Best in Science grant [BIS201617-06]
  2. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) [2015-06783]
  3. Food from Thought: Agricultural Systems for a Healthy Planet Initiative, by the Canada First Research Excellent Fund [000054]
  4. Rebanks Family Chair in Pollinator Conservation by The W. Garfield Weston Foundation

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Currently honeybees are the sole model insect pollinator for regulatory pesticide risk assessments globally. Here we question whether this surrogacy approach provides adequate protection against potential non-target impacts of pesticide exposure for the wide diversity of insect pollinators on which agricultural production and wild plant ecosystems depend.

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