In this post, Landau alumni Jochen Zubrod talks about FXMATE, their new open-access tool developed to make ecotoxicity data analysis more transparent and reproducible through an intuitive and standardized statistical workflow.
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Current-use pesticides in vegetation, topsoil and water reveal contaminated landscapes of the Upper Rhine Valley, Germany
Landau, 12.03.2025 – A new study by the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, published in Communications Earth & Environment, shows extensive pesticide contamination in the landscape of the Upper Rhine Region. Pesticides disperse across the entire landscape, contaminating soil, vegetation, and water far beyond agricultural zones. The findings shed new light on the potential environmental impacts of conventional agriculture. According to the researchers, pesticide use must be reduced urgently in order to protect non-target areas around fields, orchards and vineyards.
Continue readingHighlights of 2023 (Part 2)
In this second and final installment of the ‘Highlights of 2023’ series, we give our readers a glance of another 3 most visited posts in this year.
Continue readingBio-QSARs: the inclusion of physiological trait information in machine learning QSARs allows predictions across species
In this blogpost, Jochen Zubrod talks about developing an innovative machine learning approach for ecotoxicity predictions. These cutting-edge models show impressive predictive power for acute pesticide toxicity in freshwater organisms, holding promise for applications in environmental risk assessment and pesticide research and development.
Continue readingAvenues for future research to predict the effects of chemicals
Predicting effects of chemicals in ecosystems is complex due to many factors that influence the action of chemicals. Moreover, understanding chemical effects in ecosystems requires the integration of multiple levels of biological organisation such as cells, organs, organisms, whole populations, communities or ecosystems, which is rarely done. In this blogpost, Anke Schneeweiss and her research team provide a framework for how to integrate these levels by delineating connections between different ecotoxicological perspectives.
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The MAGIC team (Meta-Analysis of the Global Impact of Chemicals) at Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz – Landau is offering paid research stays and positions for researchers from Ukraine.
Continue readingReminder: Position as Postdoc Environmental Data Science (100%) at iES, Landau
The Institute of Environmental Sciences (iES) at Campus Landau is looking for a Postdoc in the working group ‘Ecotoxicology and Environment’, starting as soon as possible.
Continue readingYear in Review – Part 3
In the third installment of the ‘Year in Review’ series, we present our readers a glimpse of the last lot of most visited posts in the year 2021.
Continue readingPosition as Research Assistant in R programming and R Shiny apps at University of Potsdam
The Institute for Biochemistry and Biology at the University of Potsdam is looking for a research assistant in R and Shiny app programming as a part of outreach activities.
Continue readingA mini-review of process-based food web models and their application in aquatic-terrestrial meta-ecosystems
In this post, Stephen Osakpolor talks about his review of process-based food web models for both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem. These models are essential for understanding how stressors affect the interconnected environments.
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