Since the next semester is fast-approaching, the editors of “Science with Style” and Landau’s EcotoxBlog are collaborating on developing a guide to help students find their own style of studying. Continue reading
Studying with style
Environmental stressors strongly increase effects of toxicants
In this post, Matthias Liess from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) reports on their recent paper “Predicting the synergy of multiple stress effects”. Continue reading
Interactive effects of multiple exposure routes on grazing invertebrates
In this post, Mirco Bundschuh talks about their recently published paper “Multiple exposure routes of a pesticide exacerbate effects on a grazing mayfly”. Continue reading
How important are organic toxicants compared to other stressors?
In this post, Ralf Schäfer reports on their recent paper “Contribution of organic toxicants to multiple stress in river ecosystems”.
Provide some confidence!
In this post, I provide an easy-to-use function to calculate confidence intervals in R. Continue reading
Listen up alumni: deadline extended!
@ all alumni of Landau’s master program in Ecotoxicology: the deadline was extended and you can still enrol for free for the SETAC Europe Certification of Environmental Risk Assessors (CRA) program until 31st of December 2016!
“Simple is better”: A simple model predicts pesticide concentrations in the environment more reliably
Anja Knäbel reports about their recent paper “Aquatic exposure predictions of insecticide field concentrations using a multimedia mass-balance model”.
Effects of salinity on leaf breakdown – A Study Down Under
In this post, Landau alumnus Felix Sauer talks about their recently published paper “Effects of salinity on leaf breakdown: Dryland salinity versus salinity from a coalmine”.
AMEO 2016 Part I: Wildlife Monitoring & Freshwater Ecotox
For my semester colleagues and me, it is time to spread our wings to perform an internship at another university department, an agency or a company, in Germany or abroad. This first part will provide impressions from my studies on wildlife monitoring in Denmark and Stefan’s AMEO on effects of pesticides in Romania. Continue reading
Graduate Academy SERIOR: Risk and security in a trinational context
Ulrich Ufer, the Scientific Coordinator of the “Upper Rhine Trinational Graduate Academy Security-Risk-Orientation” (SERIOR), reports about the launch of this exceptional program. Continue reading