Herbicides used in forestry

Herbicide use in forestry causes mineralization, thus decreasing the amount of organic compounds in the soil, as well as the overall nitrogen and calcium content. It is an immutable fact that pesticides negatively effect agricultural crops. And this influence is much more serious and varied than pesticide proponents believe. 

Indirect effects can be substantially more far-reaching (in an ecosystem perspective) than direct chemical effects. Most herbicides used in the forest are not likely to directly affect many organisms in any ecosystem because few herbicides used in forestry are so inherently toxic or so widely distributed that the avoidance or detoxification mechanisms of all organisms would be overwhelmed. On the other hand, severe deleterious direct effects on only a few key organisms or ecosystem processes can have far-reaching (indirect) effects for many other components of the ecosystem. 

Biospheric Applications. The current controversies about the dispersal of herbicides used in forestry have demanded the immediate implementation of tracer techniques that can be used in connection vsdth herbicide dispersal. As a result, we have developed a quick and dirty tracer technology. The success of our eflFort has certain consequences concerning strategies for monitoring herbicide dispersal and for establishing legal responsibility for its consequences. 

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