Camila Guerrero-Pineda, a PhD candidate in the Conservation Innovation Lab, CBO faculty Gwen Iacona, Leah Gerber, and Steffen Eikenberry, and corporate partners from Bayer and Compliance Services International, recently published a paper in Science of the Total Environment about sequencing endangered species according to pesticide risk. Within the U.S. registration and review process, there is currently a backlog of unreviewed pesticides, leaving a large quantity of pesticides without updated use conditions to protect endangered species.
This paper develops a sequencing approach to address the risk assessment bottleneck in the pesticide registration and review process and identify species that would benefit most from detailed assessments. The assessment efficiency is calculated using benefit, feasibility, and cost. The benefit is calculated using vulnerability, hazard, and exposure.