Today, Dr Jonathan Jupke tells us about his latest publication, where he and his colleagues explored how river macroinvertebrates across Europe respond to common pollutants, such as copper and imidacloprid, and what these findings mean for environmental risk assessment.
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In this blogpost, Dr. Alessandro Manfrin, postdoc of the DFG RTG SystemLink, talks about his recent study published “Taxonomic and functional reorganization in Central European stream macroinvertebrate communities over 25 years”. Here they observed that because of increasing temperatures, species that favour cold waters are progressively replaced by those that favour warm temperatures leading to functional alterations of the community.
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