In this post, PhD student Dominic Englert shares his poster „Effects of systemic neonicotinoid insecticides: the importance of exposure pathways“ that he presented during the 15th EuCheMS International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment in Leipzig, Germany. Continue reading
Tag Archives: insecticide
EU – European Union or Environment Unprotected?
In this post, Sebastian Stehle informs about their recent paper on shortcomings and failures of the regulatory EU pesticide risk assessment procedures. Continue reading
AMEO #3: Bees, bees, bees and wasps
For the “Applied Module at External Organizations” (AMEO) the 2nd semester Ecotox students complete an eight-week internship, either performed at an external university, governmental or industrial research institute to apply the competences achieved during their study. Several students used this opportunity to explore new places in Germany, others went out into the big, wide world. This time, Bianca Frombold tells us about her internship at Innovative Environmental Services (IES) in Witterswil, Switzerland.
Poster spotlight on neonicotinoids’ effects on leaf-shredding invertebrates presented at SETAC Europe Barcelona 2015
In this post, PhD student Dominic Englert shares his poster „Are neonicotinoids a threat for leaf litter breakdown? A laboratory approach with leaf shredding invertebrates“ that he presented during this year’s SETAC Europe Meeting.
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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Theses in the team Functional Aquatic Ecotoxicology
In this post, the team Functional Aquatic Ecotoxicology announces five thesis topics. Continue reading
Agricultural insecticides pose a global risk to surface water bodies
In this post Ralf B. Schäfer talks about the paper „Modeling global distribution of agricultural insecticides in surface waters“. Continue reading