In this post, Jakob Wolfram talks about their recently published paper “Meta-analysis of Insecticides in U.S. Surface Waters: Status and Future Implications”.
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Insect decline & suggested political countermeasures – bring in your ideas!
In this post, Carsten Brühl provides some background on a new program for insect conservation by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), where he chaired a workshop on pesticide reduction.
PostDoc opportunity in modelling microplastic fate at SLU
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) is hiring a PostDoc for modelling microplastic fate and transport in agricultural soils and surface waters withing its Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment located in Uppsala.
Costa Rica: A tropical e(coto)xperience – Part 5
In this series of posts, Carsten Brühl reports about his current trip to Costa Rica. Part 5 is all about air sampling in a cloud forest to detect persistent pesticides travelling to remote areas.
RPC opportunity on amphibians & pesticides
We offer a Research Project Course (RPC) on amphibians and pesticides as part of the project “Amphibians in agricultural landscapes: chemical landscape fragmentation implemented in a habitat modelling approach”.
PhD position at the University of Koblenz-Landau
The Working Group “Quantitative Landscape Ecology” of the University of Koblenz-Landau offers a PhD position in the project “Response of freshwater invertebrates to natural environmental and agricultural stressor gradients across larger scales”.
PhD position on microplastics at SLU
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala offers a PhD position on fate and transport of microplastics in agricultural catchments within the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment.
Theses in the teams “Community Ecology & Ecotoxicology” / “Conservation Genetics”
Within the project “Amphibians in agricultural landscapes: chemical landscape fragmentation implemented in a habitat modelling approach” five theses on amphibian ecology are available. Continue reading
New DFG-Project granted: Chemical landscape fragmentation
In this post, Kathrin Theissinger presents her recently granted project on the development of landscape ecological models for the effects of chemicals on amphibians in which a 3-year PhD position is available.
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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