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Keywords: the efficiency of pesticide use, measurements of efficiency, theoretical exploration of dose delivery and uptake, direct measurements of distribution and exposure, scaling up pesticide management to the agroecosystem level, on-farm monitoring and time-series analysis, large-scale experimental systems, detecting ecological impacts on avian and aquatic wildlife, improving decision about pesticides in IPM, models for predicting groundwater contamination, environmental impact quotients, tools to predict recovery in soil and aquatic systems