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 readingInsects in nature reserves are contaminated with a cocktail of pesticides
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.
Continue readingNot using synthetic pesticides in organic farming has multiple benefits?
In this blog post Carsten Brühl provides the background for their letter to Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TREE) entitled The rejection of synthetic pesticides in organic farming has multiple benefits.
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 readingEvent: International Knowledge Hub Against Plastic Pollution
The International Knowledge Hub Against Plastic Pollution (IKHAPP) is set to see its soft launch online on December 2 at 2:00 PM (GMT).
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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