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Light pollution and invasive species: how spiders’ diets change

Night-time lighting and invasive species are changing food webs in ways we rarely notice. In this blog post, Collins explores how artificial light at night and invasive signal crayfish reshape spider diets and alter aquatic-terrestrial resource pathways.

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AMEO experience – Riparian Stream Mesocosm Facility, Landau – Hardik Babulal Dobariya (2023)

In this blogpost, Hardik Babulal Dobariya shares his internship experience at the RSM test Facility in Landau in der Pfalz, Germany. Students of the Environmental Pollution Management (Ecotoxicology)  Program complete an 8-week internship each year, the so-called “AMEO”. The AMEO is performed either at an external university, governmental or industrial research institute  where students learn to apply the competences achieved during their study. Students also use this opportunity to travel and explore Germany. 

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