Author Archives: WPChef2014

Swiss TV coverage of amphibian ecotox work

Swiss TV SRF1 featured amphibians and their population development in Switzerland in the last 20 years in their famous environment serial Network Nature (Netzwerk Natur). Continue reading

Visit of the Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate

Last Thursday, Malu Dreyer, the Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate, visited the Campus Landau.
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Silent Water

In this post, Sebastian Stehle informs about their recently published paper “Agricultural insecticides threaten surface waters at the global scale”.
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EU fungicide risk assessment not sufficiently protective for key drivers in leaf litter breakdown

In this post, we talk about two recently published papers dealing with the effects of fungicides on aquatic fungi that are key drivers in ecosystem functioning. Continue reading

Overlap of pesticide application and spring migration of amphibians reveals potential risk

In this post, Carsten Brühl informs about their recently published paper “Temporal coincidence of amphibian migration and pesticide applications on arable fields in spring”. Continue reading

Theses in the team Functional Aquatic Ecotoxicology

In this post, the team Functional Aquatic Ecotoxicology announces five thesis topics. Continue reading

Agricultural insecticides pose a global risk to surface water bodies

In this post Ralf B. Schäfer talks about the paper „Modeling global distribution of agricultural insecticides in surface waters“. Continue reading

The Rise of the EcotoxBlog!

Students and colleagues, we are excited to announce the EcotoxBlog!

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