In this series of posts, Carsten Brühl reports about his current trip to Costa Rica. Part 5 is all about air sampling in a cloud forest to detect persistent pesticides travelling to remote areas.
Costa Rica: A tropical e(coto)xperience – Part 5
Tag Archives: pesticides
RPC opportunity on amphibians & pesticides
We offer a Research Project Course (RPC) on amphibians and pesticides as part of the project “Amphibians in agricultural landscapes: chemical landscape fragmentation implemented in a habitat modelling approach”.
RPC opportunity in the MAGIC research team
The MAGIC (Meta-Analysis of Global Insecticide Contamination) research team is offering a Research Project Course (RPC) on transport distances of pesticides in surface waters to students of Ecotoxicology and Environmental Sciences.
New Amphibian Ecotoxicology project funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation
In this post, Elena Adams is presenting her new project “The impact of pesticides on amphibians – Effects of environmentally relevant pesticide mixtures and formulations on German Anura” for which she received a doctoral scholarship of the German Federal Environmental Foundation.
RPCs and theses available in Amphibian Ecotoxicology
Are you interested in native amphibians and how pesticides affect them? The team “Community Ecology & Ecotoxicology” offers multiple research project courses (RPCs) and theses dealing with this broad topic.
Carryover of pesticide effects to non-polluted patches
In this post, Ralf Schäfer talks about their recently published paper “Assessing recovery of stream insects from pesticides using a two-patch metapopulation model”.
Waste water treatment plants contribute to pesticide toxicity in agricultural catchments
In this post, Trong Dieu Hien Le talks about their recently published paper “Contribution of waste water treatment plants to pesticide toxicity in agriculture catchments”.
Resilience in the context of ecotoxicology
In this post we talk about a critical review entitled “Resilience in Ecotoxicology – towards a multiple equilibrium concept”.