ELONTA: Evaluating the impact of landscape structure and source-sink dynamics on non-target arthropod pesticide risk assessments in Germany

WP1 will update literature on source-sink dynamics, provide landscape and farming information for Germany and provide an update for the NTA models to be used, adapting them where necessary. WP2 will implement the landscape modelling for Germany (generate dynamic ALMaSS landscape representations for selected study areas), generate the landscape-scale scenarios to be evaluated, and generate the data from the simulation runs. WP3 will provide an analysis of the link between landscape structure and pesticide effects and mitigation. We will investigate feasible field management as mitigation measures, as well as evaluate the relationships between landscape/agriculture and impact of pesticides on NTAs using real German landscapes. It will also provide a synthesis based on a multi-criteria decision-making approach and provide recommendations for the use of landscape scale environmental risk assessment in pesticide
regulation in Germany. The simulation tools providing the capability to carry out further evaluations will be made available at the end of the project.