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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Can plastic mulching mitigate fungicide effects on soil?
In this post, Maximilian Meyer reports on his recently published paper “Agricultural mulching and fungicides—impacts on fungal biomass, mycotoxin occurrence, and soil organic matter decomposition”. The research question was – “Does plastic mulching mitigate fungicide effects in soils?”
Continue readingOverlooked but decisive: a review on fungicide risks in aquatic systems
In this post, Jochen Zubrod reports on their recently published paper “Fungicides – an overlooked pesticide class?”.
Continue reading“Don’t forget me”: aquatic insects, a disregarded taxonomic class in the assessment of fungicide toxicity in detritivorous invertebrates
In this post, Marco Konschak writes about their recently published paper “Waterborne and diet-related effects of inorganic and organic fungicides on the insect leaf shredder Chaetopteryx villosa (Trichoptera)”.
Continue readingNew Project: Relationship between biodiversity and functions under stress
In this post, Mirco Bundschuh talks about a recently granted DFG-project “The relevance of the BIOdiversity TO FUNction relationship in heterotrophic aquatic systems under stress” with the unusual acronym “BIO2FUN”.
4 PhD positions on Nanopesticides and Fungicides at RECETOX
The Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX) at Masaryk University, Czech Republic, is hiring a total of four PhD students in projects on nanopesticides and conazole fungicides.