Author Archives: WPChef2014

Poster on systemic fungicides’ effects on aquatic leaf litter breakdown presented at SETAC Europe Barcelona 2015

In this post, our student blogger Kym shares her poster “Systemic Fungicides Can Alter the Quality of Plant Material for Aquatic Shredders” that she presented during this year’s SETAC Europe Meeting. Continue reading

Posters of the Quantitative Landscape Ecology Group @SETACBarcelona2015

Two PhD students of the Landscape Ecology Group had a lot of fun with their computers and presented parts of their work at SETAC Barcelona. Continue reading

Don’t miss the chance!

Today we inform you about the approaching deadline for applications for the Masters program in Ecotoxicology. Continue reading

Poster on amphibians and pesticides presented at SETAC Europe Barcelona 2015

In this post, Carsten Brühl provides a poster on amphibian ecotox his group presented. Continue reading

You are what you eat!

In this post, we talk about our recently published paper “The relative importance of diet-related and waterborne effects of copper for a leaf-shredding invertebrate”. Continue reading

PhD fellowships at CSIC, Barcelona

Professor Dr. Carlos Barata of CSIC, Barcelona, is looking for candidates for a PhD working on the project  “Mechanistically-based environmental risk assessment: towards an omics-driven solution for an effective management of chemical risks”  Continue reading

Poster on wild bee ring test participation presented at SETAC Europe Barcelona 2015

In this post, Carsten Brühl provides a poster on a wild bee ring test his group participated in. Continue reading

The presence of titanium dioxide nanoparticles modifies copper toxicity

In this post, Ricki Rosenfeldt writes about their recent paper on the modulation of heavy metal toxicity by nanoparticles. Continue reading

The ed=r blog

On his blog, Landau’s PhD student Eduard Szöcs provides useful information about the use of R in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Sciences. Continue reading

The ecotoxicity of titanium dioxide nanoparticles transiently increases after aging under environmentally relevant conditions

In this post, Frank Seitz informs about their recent paper on the ecotoxicity of aged nanoparticles. Continue reading