The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig offers four PhD positions within the integrated project “Linking catchment scale nutrient export to pelagic, benthic and hyporheic ecosystem functioning across stressor gradients”.
Tag Archives: ecosystem functioning
At the pulse of time: transient effects may obscure biological effect monitoring
In this post, we talk about our recently published paper “Transient effects following peak exposures towards pesticides – an explanation for the unresponsiveness of in situ measured functional variables”.
Visit at the 8th Meeting on Plant Litter Processing in Freshwaters
Jochen Zubrod provides his impressions on his visit at the 8th Meeting on Plant Litter Processing in Freshwaters (PLPF8) at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain.
Population-level fungicide effects assessed in the Laboratory Stream Microcosm Facility
In this post, we talk about our recently published paper “Long-term effects of fungicides on leaf-associated microorganisms and shredder populations – an artificial stream study”.
I spy with my little eye
In this post, Alexander Feckler talks about his recently published paper “Quantitative real-time PCR as a promising tool for the detection and quantification of leaf-associated fungal species – A proof-of-concept using Alatospora pulchella”.
Fungicides: do environmentally relevant concentrations affect reproduction in leaf-shredders?
In this post, Patrick Baudy reports on their recent paper on reproductive effects of fungicides in shredders.
Research Project Course or Bachelor thesis on effects of fungicides on leaf-litter microbes
In this post, we offer a Research Project Course (RPC)/Bachelor thesis on analyzing samples from a joint project with the German Environmental Protection Agency (Umweltbundesamt; UBA). Continue reading
MSc thesis in the team “Functional Aquatic Ecotoxicology”
In this post, the team “Functional Aquatic Ecotoxicology” offers another thesis topic.
What are you working on? Part II: Working group “Quantitative Landscape Ecology”
In this new series of posts, research teams/groups of Landau’s Institute of Environmental Sciences introduce their Ecotoxicology-related research. This time: the group “Quantitative Landscape Ecology” Continue reading
PhD position at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
The Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, offers a 2-year PhD position on how functional diversity measured at the individual level affects multiple ecosystem functions and how stress may affect these relationships. Continue reading