In this blogpost, Sonja Ehlers reports how microplastic loads in rocky intertidal snails from the North Sea, Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean are consistent across space and time. The majority of the contained microplastics consisted of paint chips that likely derived from ships or maritime equipment. Such paint chips can contain toxic antifouling substances and heavy metals.
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Short Term Scientific Missions is being organized by COST-Action PERIAMAR to help scientists contribute to ERA while allowing them to learn new techniques, gain access to specific data, instruments and methods not available in their own institutions/ organizations.
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The Society of Limnology (SIL) meeting will be held in Berlin in August 2022 on the theme ‘Cross-boundary interactions: propagation of stressors from aquatic to terrestrial ecosystems‘
Continue readingUpdate 02.03.2022 – Here is a link to a new video of the study on insects contaminated with a mix of pesticides in nature reserves.
In this blog post Carsten Brühl explains the background and findings of their paper on pesticide residues measured on insect samples from nature conservation areas in Germany published in Scientific reports.
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In this blogpost, Fola Ogungbemi talks about the effects of mixtures of neuroactive substances. Risk assessment of chemicals is usually conducted for individual chemicals whereas mixtures of chemicals occur in the environment. Considering that neuroactive chemicals are a group of contaminants that dominate the environment, it is then imperative to understand the effects of mixtures of neuroactive substances.
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A diversity workshop is being organized by SystemLink at University of Koblenz – Landau to explore how you experience diversity in your project in a safe and fun environment.
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The application for the Master in Environmental Pollution Management (Ecotoxicology) for the winter semester 22/23 at the University Landau is now open. Investigate the potential impact of chemical stressors on ecosystems and how to effectively manage environmental risks.
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In this blog post, Eric Bollinger provides a brief overview of their recently published paper regarding the effects of antibiotics on methane production in sediments. The study links topics from ecotoxicology, environmental physics, and molecular ecology in the context of climate change.
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The governmental monitoring under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) shall monitor the status of European water bodies. By carrying out a refined monitoring, a group of scientists from Leipzig and Landau now showed that pesticide risk in surface waters remains widely unnoticed in the WFD monitoring.
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In this blog post, Eric Bollinger provides a brief overview of their recently published paper regarding fungicide effects on microbial leaf decomposition in sediments.
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