In the third installment of the ‘Year in Review’ series, we present our readers a glimpse of the last lot of most visited posts in the year 2021.
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Year in Review – Part 2
In the second installment of the ‘Year in Review’ series, we give our readers a glimpse of 3 most visited posts in the year 2021.
Continue readingThe mistletoe season is here again: Merry Christmas!
On the occasion of the festive season, the blogteam of EcotoxBlog and the Institute of Environmental Sciences (iES) at the University of Koblenz – Landau wishes its readers and blog contributors a merry and joyful Christmas!
Continue readingYear in Review – Part 1
In this first installment of the ‘Year in Review’ series, we would like to give our readers a glimpse of some of the best blogposts of the year 2021.
Continue readingPost-doctoral position in Aquatic Ecology at University of Minho, Portugal
The Center for Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA) at University of Minho is offering a post-doctoral research fellowship in a research and development project.
Continue readingWeed killers change the diet of freshwater snails
In this post, Marco Konschak reports on the recently published paper “Herbicide-Induced Shifts in the Periphyton Community Composition Indirectly Affect Feeding Activity and Physiology of the Gastropod Grazer Physella acuta”.
Continue readingREMINDER: Webinar on plastic pollution with a focus on informal recycling sector
The International Knowledge Hub Against Plastic Pollution (IKHAPP) will hold a webinar tomorrow (December 2) at 2:00 PM (GMT).
Continue readingResearch Assistant / PhD offer in Aquatic Ecotoxicology at the Federal Institute of Hydrology
The BfG (Federal Institute of Hydrology) is looking for a research assistant in the department of Biochemistry / Ecotoxicology in Koblenz.
Continue readingPosition as Research Assistant in R programming and R Shiny apps at University of Potsdam
The Institute for Biochemistry and Biology at the University of Potsdam is looking for a research assistant in R and Shiny app programming as a part of outreach activities.
Continue readingCan clay minerals make copper oxide nanoparticles toxic?
In this blogpost by Jonas Fischer, springtails were exposed to copper oxide nanoparticles at realistic field concentrations in four soils of varying properties. Toxic effects occurred only in loamy soils and mostly at the lowest test concentrations. Reduced nanoparticle agglomeration and clay-nanoparticle interactions were considered being responsible for this observation.
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