In this blogpost, Francesco Polazzo talks about how pesticides can cause a drastic change in the organisation and strength of interactions of aquatic food webs. Particularly, after pesticide exposure, changes in the strength of trophic interactions seem to be driving long-lasting effects in community structure. When multiple pesticides act together, they modify both food web structure and interaction’s strength, causing late-stage non-additive effects between stressors.
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Stronger effects of fungicides in the hyporheic than in the benthic zone
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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