Ecological Modelling in Environmental Risk Assessment

Biodiversity is key to modern society, sustaining natural resources and providing essential ecosystem services. SYBERAC will provide ways forward to rationalise the current silo-based Protection Goals into high-level system-based Protection Goals and to operationalise their use within systems-based ERA robust and broadly applicable ERA structures. Six case studies, overarching different silos of current ERA will provide proof-of-concepts of the developed approaches. SYBERAC aims to assess the risks of agrochemicals to biodiversity, ecosystem services and bioaccumulation/biomagnification. For this it will operate 6 case studies to some of which fate and effect modelling will be added to complete the assessments. The PhD student will be in charge of developing the effect models.