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Investigating short-term exposure to electromagnetic fields on reproductive capacity of invertebrates in the field situation.
Vijver MG, Bolte JF, Evans TR, Tamis WL, Peijnenburg WJ, Musters CJ, de Snoo GR. · 2013
View Original AbstractShort-term mobile tower exposure showed no reproductive effects in invertebrates, but researchers warn this doesn't rule out potential long-term biodiversity impacts.
Plain English Summary
Dutch researchers exposed four species of small invertebrates (insects and other small creatures) to radiofrequency radiation from mobile phone base stations for 48 hours to see if it affected their ability to reproduce. They found no significant impact on fertility or offspring production. However, the researchers emphasized that finding no effects doesn't rule out potential harm, since scientists still don't fully understand how non-thermal EMF exposure might affect living organisms.
Study Details
In this study we examined the impact of exposure to the fields from mobile phone base stations (GSM 900 MHz) on the reproductive capacity of small, virgin, invertebrates.
A field experiment was performed exposing four different invertebrate species at different distances...
Results showed that distance was not an adequate proxy to explain dose-response regressions. No sign...
Finding no impact on reproductive capacity does not fully exclude the existence of EMF impact, since mechanistically models hypothesizing non-thermal-induced biological effects from RF exposure are still to be developed. The exposure to RF EMF is ubiquitous and is still increasing rapidly over large areas. We plea for more attention toward the possible impacts of EMF on biodiversity.
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@article{mg_2013_investigating_shortterm_exposure_to_3477,
author = {Vijver MG and Bolte JF and Evans TR and Tamis WL and Peijnenburg WJ and Musters CJ and de Snoo GR.},
title = {Investigating short-term exposure to electromagnetic fields on reproductive capacity of invertebrates in the field situation.},
year = {2013},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23781930/},
}