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20 years SETAC GLB: increasing realism of pesticide risk assessment

scholarly article

A comparison of predicted and measured levels of runoff-related pesticide concentrations in small lowland streams on a landscape level

scientific article published in February 2005

A qualitative field method for monitoring pesticides in the edge-of-field runoff

scientific article published on 01 June 1998

A qualitative sampling method for monitoring water quality in temporary channels or point sources and its application to pesticide contamination

scientific article

A similarity-index-based method to estimate chemical concentration limits protective for ecological communities

scientific article

A trait database of stream invertebrates for the ecological risk assessment of single and combined effects of salinity and pesticides in South-East Australia

scientific article published on 4 March 2011

Acute and Delayed Effects of the Neonicotinoid Insecticide Thiacloprid on Seven Freshwater Arthropods

scientific article published in 2007

Acute and chronic effects of particle-associated fenvalerate on stream macroinvertebrates: a runoff simulation study using outdoor microcosms.

scientific article published in May 2001

Acute and delayed effects of the neonicotinoid insecticide thiacloprid on seven freshwater arthropods.

scientific article published in February 2008

Acute contamination with esfenvalerate and food limitation: chronic effects on the mayfly, Cloeon dipterum

scientific article published in May 2005

Adaptation of Gammarus pulex to agricultural insecticide contamination in streams.

scientific article

Agricultural intensity and landscape structure: influences on the macroinvertebrate assemblages of small streams in northern Germany

scientific article published on 01 February 2007

An expert system to estimate the pesticide contamination of small streams using benthic macroinvertebrates as bioindicators

article

An expert system to estimate the pesticide contamination of small streams using benthic macroinvertebrates as bioindicators II. The knowledge base of LIMPACT

article

An indicator for effects of organic toxicants on lotic invertebrate communities: Independence of confounding environmental factors over an extensive river continuum

scientific article

Analysing chemical-induced changes in macroinvertebrate communities in aquatic mesocosm experiments: a comparison of methods.

scientific article published on 7 February 2015

Analyzing effects of pesticides on invertebrate communities in streams

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Aquatic passive sampling of a short-term thiacloprid pulse with the Chemcatcher: impact of biofouling and use of a diffusion-limiting membrane on the sampling rate

scientific article published on 16 July 2008

Assessing the mixture effects in in-vitro bioassays of chemicals occurring in small agricultural streams during rain events

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Author Correction: Pesticide pollution in freshwater paves the way for schistosomiasis transmission

scientific article published on 07 April 2020

Automated Nanocosm test system to assess the effects of stressors on two interacting populations

scientific article published on 28 September 2011

Balancing effort and benefit – How taxonomic and quantitative resolution influence the pesticide indicator system SPEARpesticides

scientific article published in 2022

Bioaccumulation of trace metals in the Antarctic amphipod Paramoera walkeri (Stebbing, 1906): comparison of two-compartment and hyperbolic toxicokinetic models

scientific article

Biotic interactions govern genetic adaptation to toxicants

scientific article published in May 2015

Calibration of the Chemcatcher passive sampler for monitoring selected polar and semi-polar pesticides in surface water

scientific article published on 20 February 2008

Chemicals in the Environment (CITE)

scientific article published in 2010

Citizen Scientists Assess the Ecological Status of Small Streams in Germany

scientific article published in 2022

Citizen science for assessing pesticide impacts in agricultural streams

scientific article published in January 2023

Citizen science shows that small agricultural streams in Germany are in a poor ecological status

scientific article published in April 2024

Climate change, agricultural insecticide exposure, and risk for freshwater communities

scientific article

Close to reality? Micro-/mesocosm communities do not represent natural macroinvertebrate communities

scientific article published in 2022

Combined and interactive effects of global climate change and toxicants on populations and communities

scientific article published in January 2013

Community dynamics under environmental change: How can next generation mechanistic models improve projections of species distributions?

article

Competition impedes the recovery of Daphnia magna from repeated insecticide pulses

scientific article published on 11 December 2013

Competition increases toxicant sensitivity and delays the recovery of two interacting populations

scientific article

Competition matters: species interactions prolong the long-term effects of pulsed toxicant stress on populations

scientific article published on 27 May 2014

Conclusions of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment on the risks of neonicotinoids and fipronil to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

scientific article

Controlling Culex pipiens: antagonists are more efficient than a neonicotinoid insecticide

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Crustacean biodiversity as an important factor for mosquito larval control

scientific article

Culmination of low-dose pesticide effects

scientific article published on 26 July 2013

Determination of 10 particle-associated multiclass polar and semi-polar pesticides from small streams using accelerated solvent extraction

scientific article published on 7 November 2007

Development of a framework based on an ecosystem services approach for deriving specific protection goals for environmental risk assessment of pesticides

scientific article

Disentangling multiple chemical and non-chemical stressors in a lotic ecosystem using a longitudinal approach

scientific article published in 2021

Do drivers of biodiversity change differ in importance across marine and terrestrial systems - Or is it just different research communities' perspectives?

scientific article

Do predictions from Species Sensitivity Distributions match with field data?

scientific article

Drivers of pesticide resistance in freshwater amphipods

scientific article published on 08 May 2020

Ecological recovery of populations of vulnerable species driving the risk assessment of pesticides

scientific article published in 2012

Ecotoxicology and macroecology--time for integration

scientific article

Effects of chronic ammonium and nitrite contamination on the macroinvertebrate community in running water microcosms

scientific article published on 01 October 2001

Effects of contaminants in the Antarctic environment - potential of the gammarid amphipod crustacean Paramorea walkeri as a biological indicator for Antarctic ecosystems based on toxicity and bioacccumulation of copper and cadmium

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

Effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on non-target invertebrates

scientific article

Effects of organic pollutants from wastewater treatment plants on aquatic invertebrate communities

scientific article

Effects of parathion on acetylcholinesterase, butyrylcholinesterase, and carboxylesterase in three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) following short-term exposure.

scientific article published in July 2001

Effects of pesticides on community structure and ecosystem functions in agricultural streams of three biogeographical regions in Europe

scientific article published on 06 June 2007

Effects of the hormone mimetic insecticide tebufenozide on Chironomus riparius larvae in two different exposure setups.

scientific article published in June 2001

Effects of the organophosphate paraoxon-methyl on survival and reproduction of Daphnia magna: importance of exposure duration and recovery.

scientific article published in May 2006

Effects of the pyrethroid fenvalerate on the alarm response and on the vulnerability of the mosquito larva Culex pipiens molestus to the predator Notonecta glauca

scientific article published on 4 April 2011

Elevated temperature prolongs long-term effects of a pesticide on Daphnia spp. due to altered competition in zooplankton communities

scientific article

Environmental Stress Increases Synergistic Effects of Pesticide Mixtures on Daphnia magna

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

Environmental context determines community sensitivity of freshwater zooplankton to a pesticide.

scientific article

Environmental fate and exposure; neonicotinoids and fipronil

scientific article

Environmental stressors can enhance the development of community tolerance to a toxicant

scientific article

Estimating pesticide runoff in small streams

scientific article published on 28 March 2007

Evaluation of Exposure Metrics for Effect Assessment of Soil Invertebrates

Forested headwaters mitigate pesticide effects on macroinvertebrate communities in streams: Mechanisms and quantification

scientific article published on 15 April 2015

Future pesticide risk assessment: narrowing the gap between intention and reality

scientific article published in 2019

High pesticide tolerance of S. mansoni: implications for the risk of schistosomiasis

scientific article published in 2024

How to characterize chemical exposure to predict ecologic effects on aquatic communities?

scientific article published on 2 July 2013

Identification of pesticide exposure-induced metabolic changes in mosquito larvae

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

In situ-based effects measures: determining the ecological relevance of measured responses.

scientific article published on April 2007

Indication of pesticide effects and recolonization in streams

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

Indirect Effects of Pesticides on Mosquito Larvae Via Alterations of Community Structure

scientific article published in 2010

Influence of competing and predatory invertebrate taxa on larval populations of mosquitoes in temporary ponds of wetland areas in Germany

scientific article published in December 2010

Influence of duration of exposure to the pyrethroid fenvalerate on sublethal responses and recovery of Daphnia magna straus.

scientific article published in May 2005

Influence of food limitation on the effects of fenvalerate pulse exposure on the life history and population growth rate of Daphnia magna.

scientific article

Insecticides in agricultural streams exert pressure for adaptation but impair performance in Gammarus pulex at regulatory acceptable concentrations

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

Interspecific competition delays recovery of Daphnia spp. populations from pesticide stress

scientific article published on 5 February 2012

Intraspecific competition delays recovery of population structure

scientific article published on 2 December 2009

Intraspecific competition increases toxicant effects in outdoor pond microcosms

scientific article published on 10 May 2012

Land use alters cross-ecosystem transfer of high value fatty acids by aquatic insects

scientific article published on 9 January 2024

Landscape parameters driving aquatic pesticide exposure and effects

scientific article published on 21 December 2013

Linking feeding activity and maturation of Daphnia magna following short-term exposure to fenvalerate

scientific article published in July 2006

Linking land use variables and invertebrate taxon richness in small and medium-sized agricultural streams on a landscape level.

scientific article published in February 2005

Long-term signal of population disturbance after pulse exposure to an insecticide: rapid recovery of abundance, persistent alteration of structure

scientific article published in May 2006

Long-term stream invertebrate community alterations induced by the insecticide thiacloprid: effect concentrations and recovery dynamics

scientific article

Making ecosystem reality checks the status quo

scientific article published on 01 March 2012

Mapping ecological risk of agricultural pesticide runoff

scientific article published on 8 August 2007

Maternal nutritional state determines the sensitivity of Daphnia magna offspring to short-term Fenvalerate exposure

scientific article

Metal toxicity affects predatory stream invertebrates less than other functional feeding groups

scientific article published on 09 May 2017

Modeling Macroinvertebrate Community Dynamics in Stream Mesocosms Contaminated with a Pesticide

scientific article

Modeling global distribution of agricultural insecticides in surface waters

scientific article

Modelling aquatic exposure and effects of insecticides--application to south-eastern Australia

scientific article

Neonicotinoid contamination of global surface waters and associated risk to aquatic invertebrates: a review

scientific article

Occurrence and risk assessment of organic micropollutants in freshwater systems within the Lake Victoria South Basin, Kenya

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Occurrence and toxicity of 331 organic pollutants in large rivers of north Germany over a decade (1994 to 2004).

scientific article published on 24 June 2011

Performance of the Chemcatcher passive sampler when used to monitor 10 polar and semi-polar pesticides in 16 Central European streams, and comparison with two other sampling methods

scientific article

Pesticide Body Burden of the Crustacean Gammarus pulex as a Measure of Toxic Pressure in Agricultural Streams

scientific article published on 06 July 2018

Pesticide impact on aquatic invertebrates identified with Chemcatcher® passive samplers and the SPEAR(pesticides) index

scientific article published on 14 August 2015

Pesticide peak discharge from wastewater treatment plants into streams during the main period of insecticide application: ecotoxicological evaluation in comparison to runoff.

scientific article published in May 2003

Pesticide pollution in freshwater paves the way for schistosomiasis transmission

scientific article published on 27 February 2020

Pesticides are the dominant stressors for vulnerable insects in lowland streams

scientific article published in August 2021

Pesticides from wastewater treatment plant effluents affect invertebrate communities

scientific article

Pesticides reduce regional biodiversity of stream invertebrates

scientific article

Population developmental stage determines the recovery potential of Daphnia magna populations after fenvalerate application

scientific article

Population response to toxicants is altered by intraspecific interaction

scientific article published in January 2002

Potential of 11 pesticides to initiate downstream drift of stream macroinvertebrates

scientific article published on 8 January 2008

Potential propagation of agricultural pesticide exposure and effects to upstream sections in a biosphere reserve

scientific article published in August 2022

Predation risk perception and food scarcity induce alterations of life-cycle traits of the mosquito Culex pipiens

article published in 2007

Predicting low-concentration effects of pesticides

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Predicting the synergy of multiple stress effects

scientific article

Rank ordering of macroinvertebrate species sensitivity to toxic compounds by comparison with that of Daphnia magna

scientific article published on 01 September 2001

Realistic pesticide exposure through water and food amplifies long-term effects in a Limnephilid caddisfly.

scientific article published on 23 December 2016

Rebuttal related to “Traits and Stress: Keys to identify community effects of low levels of toxicants in test systems” by Liess and Beketov (2011).

scientific article published on 8 January 2012

Recovery of aquatic and terrestrial populations in the context of European pesticide risk assessment

Relative sensitivity distribution of aquatic invertebrates to organic and metal compounds.

scientific article published in January 2004

Revealing the cascade of pesticide effects from gene to community

scholarly article

Risk assessment of episodic exposures to chemicals should consider both the physiological and the ecological sensitivities of species.

scientific article

Risk from pesticide mixtures – The gap between risk assessment and reality

scientific article published in November 2021

Runoff simulation with particle-bound fenvalerate in multispecies stream microcosms: importance of biological interactions.

scientific article

Runoff simulation with particle‐bound fenvalerate in multispecies stream microcosms: Importance of biological interactions

scientific article published in 2001

SPEAR indicates pesticide effects in streams--comparative use of species- and family-level biomonitoring data

scientific article

Sediment Toxicity Testing for Prospective Risk Assessment—A New Framework and How to Establish It

article

Sensitivity ranking for freshwater invertebrates towards hydrocarbon contaminants.

scientific article published on 6 September 2017

Sequential exposure to low levels of pesticides and temperature stress increase toxicological sensitivity of crustaceans

scientific article published on 17 August 2017

Short-term disturbance of a grazer has long-term effects on bacterial communities--relevance of trophic interactions for recovery from pesticide effects

scientific article published on 2 May 2010

Small streams–large concentrations? Pesticide monitoring in small agricultural streams in Germany during dry weather and rainfall

scientific article published in September 2021

Species Diversity Hinders Adaptation to Toxicants.

scientific article published on 28 July 2017

Species occurrence relates to pesticide gradient in streams

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Statistics matter: data aggregation improves identification of community-level effects compared to a commonly used multivariate method

scientific article

Stream invertebrate community structure at Canadian oil sands development is linked to concentration of bitumen-derived contaminants

scientific article published on October 2016

Structural AlertsA New Classification Model to Discriminate Excess Toxicity from Narcotic Effect Levels of Organic Compounds in the Acute Daphnid Assay

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Sub-lethal effects of metal exposure: physiological and behavioural responses of the estuarine bivalve Macoma balthica

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Sustainable control of mosquito larvae in the field by the combined actions of the biological insecticide Bti and natural competitors

scientific article published in June 2013

Systemic insecticides (neonicotinoids and fipronil): trends, uses, mode of action and metabolites.

scientific article

Temporal and spatial habitat preferences and biotic interactions between mosquito larvae and antagonistic crustaceans in the field

scientific article published in June 2014

The Bode hydrological observatory: a platform for integrated, interdisciplinary hydro-ecological research within the TERENO Harz/Central German Lowland Observatory

article

The Combined Effect of Ecological Factors on Freshwater Zooplankton Community under Toxicant Stress

scientific article published in 2015

The EU chemicals strategy for sustainability: an opportunity to develop new approaches for hazard and risk assessment

scientific article published in 2022

The footprint of pesticide stress in communities--species traits reveal community effects of toxicants

scientific article published on 24 July 2008

The influence of predation on the chronic response of Artemia sp. populations to a toxicant

scientific article published on December 2006

The potential of cladocerans as controphic competitors of the mosquito Culex pipiens

scientific article published in May 2011

The significance of entry routes as point and non-point sources of pesticides in small streams

scientific article published in February 2002

The use of image analysis to estimate population growth rate in Daphnia magna

scientific article published in June 2006

Three reasons why the Water Framework Directive (WFD) fails to identify pesticide risks

scientific article published in January 2022

Thresholds for the effects of pesticides on invertebrate communities and leaf breakdown in stream ecosystems

scientific article

Time between Sequential Exposures to Multiple Stress Turns Antagonism into Synergism

scientific article published on 28 September 2022

Towards a renewed research agenda in ecotoxicology

scientific article

Traits and stress: keys to identify community effects of low levels of toxicants in test systems

scientific article

Traits-based approaches in bioassessment and ecological risk assessment: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

scientific article

Two stressors and a community: effects of hydrological disturbance and a toxicant on freshwater zooplankton

scientific article

Ultra-low Esfenvalerate concentrations increase biomass and may reduce competitiveness of Daphnia magna populations

scientific article published in August 2023

Ultra-low esfenvalerate exposure may disrupt interspecific competition

scientific article published in January 2024

Ultraviolet radiation increases sensitivity to pesticides: synergistic effects on population growth rate of Daphnia magna at low concentrations

scientific article published on 17 June 2011

Variability of pesticide exposure in a stream mesocosm system: macrophyte-dominated vs. non-vegetated sections

scientific article published on 2 October 2008

Water quality indices across Europe--a comparison of the good ecological status of five river basins

scientific article published on 30 July 2007

What Environmental Factors Are Important Determinants of Structure, Species Richness, and Abundance of Mosquito Assemblages?

scientific article published in 2010

What environmental factors are important determinants of structure, species richness, and abundance of mosquito assemblages?

scientific article