Effect of Agricultural Pesticides and Land Use Intensification on Amphibian Larval Development

The increase in human population had to the demand for vital resources, including food, generating intensive and extractive exploitation, impacting natural ecosystems biodiversity. Land degradation of is a serious widespread problem world. expansion agricultural frontier by direct or indirect human-induced processes, expressed as long-term reduction loss industrialization agriculture been negatively affected soil fertility, climate, biogeochemical cycles, bodies water, biodiversity on different spatiotemporal scales. Intensive agriculture, form monocultures, subjected strict pest controls use highly toxic agrochemicals. Pesticides are used monocultures spraying aqueous dilutions. Knowing effect pesticides agrochemicals amphibians very important. These animals have special ecophysiological conditions because they biphasic life cycles composed an embryonic larval aquatic development stage adult humid terrestrial environments. For these reasons, observed with increased mortality rates, reduced prey availability, growth rates.