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25 Years SETAC GLB and 30 Years of GDCh

The aim of the series is to provide an overview of the current state of ecotoxicology and environmental chemistry in German-speaking countries as well as the main developments and topics of the SETAC Europe -  German Language Branch and GDCh.

Deadline: 31st May 2024

Lead Guest Editor:
Henner Hollert, Goethe University Frankfurt
Guest Editors:
Peter Ebke, Mesocosm GMBH
Lars Düster, Federal Hydrological Institute (BFG)
Marion Junghans, ETH Zürich EAWAG / Ecotox Centre
Stefan Hahn, ITEM Fraunhofer

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  1. Oxidative treatment methods are valuable tools for the microbial safety of drinking water. However, the reaction of oxidants with natural substances or anthropogenic contaminants present in the raw water can p...

    Authors: Amandine Michel, Dominic Armbruster, Angelika Benz-Birck, Nina Deppermann, Reinhard Doetzer, Markus Flörs, Markus Frericks, Shanghua Li, Sebastian Gebler, Tom Schröder and Wolfram Seitz
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:110
    Content type: Policy Brief Published on:

  2. A variety of anthropogenic stressors influences the ecological status of rivers wordwide. Important stressors include elevated concentrations of nutrients, salt ions, heavy metals and other pollutants, habitat...

    Authors: Nele Markert, Barbara Guhl and Christian K. Feld
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:100
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  3. Phosphorus recycling from sewage sludge will be obligatory in Germany from 2029. Phosphorus content determination in sewage sludge is crucial to assess the prescribed recycling rates. Currently, German law reg...

    Authors: Theresa Constanze Sichler, Roland Becker, Andreas Sauer, Matthias Barjenbruch, Markus Ostermann and Christian Adam
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:99
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  4. Determining the cytotoxicity of test substances is essential for the safety assessment of chemicals. To quantify the cytotoxicity, dose–response curves are determined and the half-maximum inhibitory concentrat...

    Authors: Nina Ihling, Lara Pauline Munkler, Richard Paul, Dietmar Lang and Jochen Büchs
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:97
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. Data from a one-year field study on the effect of a fertilizer (calcium cyanamide, trade name: Perlka®) on Collembola served as the basis for a broader discussion on performance and evaluation of these data for t...

    Authors: J. Römbke, A. van der Veen, P. Ebke and P. Stegger
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:87
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. A large number of apex predator samples are available in European research collections, environmental specimen banks and natural history museums that could be used in chemical monitoring and regulation. Apex p...

    Authors: Gabriele Treu, Jaroslav Slobodnik, Nikiforos Alygizakis, Alexander Badry, Dirk Bunke, Alessandra Cincinelli, Daniela Claßen, Rene W. R. J. Dekker, Bernd Göckener, Georgios Gkotsis, Georg Hanke, Guy Duke, Morten Jartun, Paola Movalli, Maria-Christina Nika, Heinz Rüdel…
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:82
    Content type: Policy Brief Published on:

  7. Monitoring data from apex predators were key drivers in the development of early chemicals legislations due to the population declines of many species during the twentieth century, which was linked to certain ...

    Authors: Alexander Badry, Jaroslav Slobodnik, Nikiforos Alygizakis, Dirk Bunke, Alessandra Cincinelli, Daniela Claßen, Rene W. R. J. Dekker, Guy Duke, Valeria Dulio, Bernd Göckener, Georgios Gkotsis, Georg Hanke, Morten Jartun, Paola Movalli, Maria-Christina Nika, Heinz Rüdel…
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:81
    Content type: Policy Brief Published on:

  9. Bioaccumulation of hydrophobic organic compounds (HOCs) along freshwater food chains is a major environmental concern as top predators in food webs are relevant for human consumption. To characterize and manag...

    Authors: Theo Wernicke, Elisa Rojo-Nieto, Albrecht Paschke, Claudia Nogueira Tavares, Mario Brauns and Annika Jahnke
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:66
    Content type: Research Published on:

  10. The European environmental risk assessment of plant protection products considers aquatic model ecosystem studies (microcosms/mesocosms, M/M) as suitable higher tier approach to assess treatment-related effect...

    Authors: Lena Reiber, Kaarina Foit, Matthias Liess, Bilgin Karaoglan, Joern Wogram and Sabine Duquesne
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:65
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. Spring waters, which are fed mainly by near-surface groundwater, provide a comprehensive picture of emissions of nitrate and other pollutants caused by the type and intensity of land use in the topographic cat...

    Authors: Gero Weber and Jochen Kubiniok
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:53
    Content type: Research Published on:

  12. Over the past decades, thousands of different per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have been produced and applied in various industrial processes and consumer products. Their structural diversity has re...

    Authors: Bernd Göckener, Frank Thomas Lange, Lukas Lesmeister, Emine Gökçe, Hans Ulrich Dahme, Nicole Bandow and Annegret Biegel-Engler
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:52
    Content type: Comment Published on:

  13. Imidacloprid is among the most widely used insecticides and today is found in surface and ground water worldwide. It has been registered in the EU watchlist for monitoring. To prevent imidacloprid from enterin...

    Authors: Melanie Voigt, Victoria Langerbein and Martin Jaeger
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:47
    Content type: Research Published on:

  14. European chemicals management aims to protect human health and the environment from legacy and emerging contaminants. The plasticizer market changed in response to the restriction of low molecular weight (LMW)...

    Authors: Regine Nagorka, Wolfram Birmili, Jona Schulze and Jan Koschorreck
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:46
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  15. Pesticide use has been associated with risks for human health and an overall decline in biodiversity. Although herbicides are the most commonly used pesticides worldwide, they have received less attention in t...

    Authors: Ramona M. Cech, Suzanne Jovanovic, Susan Kegley, Koen Hertoge, Friedrich Leisch and Johann G. Zaller
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:44
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. The freshwater algae and cyanobacteria growth inhibition test (OECD test guideline 201) is frequently used to assess the ecotoxicity of chemicals or particles. A central issue is the measurement of algal growt...

    Authors: Kerstin Hund-Rinke, Ruben Schlinkert and Karsten Schlich
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:41
    Content type: Research Published on:

  17. Human-induced biodiversity loss and changes in community composition are major challenges of the present time, urgently calling for comprehensive biomonitoring approaches to understand system dynamics and to i...

    Authors: Vera M. A. Zizka, Jan Koschorreck, Collins C. Khan and Jonas J. Astrin
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:40
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  18. For landscape-level risk assessments of pesticides, the choice of the scenario is a key question, since it determines the outcome of a risk assessment. Typically, the aim is to select a realistic worst-case sc...

    Authors: Magnus Wang, Su-Yeong Park, Christian Dietrich and Joachim Kleinmann
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:35
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  19. The chemical pollution crisis severely threatens human and environmental health globally. To tackle this challenge the establishment of an overarching international science–policy body has recently been sugges...

    Authors: Werner Brack, Damia Barcelo Culleres, Alistair B. A. Boxall, Hélène Budzinski, Sara Castiglioni, Adrian Covaci, Valeria Dulio, Beate I. Escher, Peter Fantke, Faith Kandie, Despo Fatta-Kassinos, Félix J. Hernández, Klara Hilscherová, Juliane Hollender, Henner Hollert, Annika Jahnke…
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:21
    Content type: Policy brief Published on:

  20. An Integrated Testing and Assessment Strategy (ITS) for aquatic toxicity of 16 thiochemicals to be registered under REACH revealed 12 data gaps, which had to be filled by experimental data. These test results ...

    Authors: Monika Nendza and Jan Ahlers
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:17
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  21. The current regulatory approach to address aquatic mixture toxicity for pesticides in the EU (EFSA J 11:3290, 2013) is rather complex: in typical cases it requires conducting the entire mixture risk assessment...

    Authors: Christian Dietrich, Magnus Wang, Markus Ebeling and Anja Gladbach
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:16
    Content type: Discussion Published on:

  22. Persistence is a key criterion for the risk assessment of chemicals. In degradation tests, microbial biodegradation of labeled test chemicals leads to the incorporation of the label in microbial biomass, resul...

    Authors: Stefan Trapp, Andreas Libonati Brock, Matthias Kästner, Andreas Schäffer and Dieter Hennecke
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:15
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  23. In Germany and the EU, most headwaters are still far from reaching a good chemical and ecological status as it is required by the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), until 2027 the latest. Particularly, ...

    Authors: Mona Schweizer, Andreas Dieterich, Sarah Betz, Dietlinde Leim, Viktoria Prozmann, Björn Jacobs, Arne Wick, Heinz-R. Köhler and Rita Triebskorn
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2022 34:10
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  24. It is acknowledged that a variety of chemicals enter the environment and may cause joint effects. Chemicals regulated under the European Chemicals Regulation REACH are often part of formulated mixtures and dur...

    Authors: Enken Hassold, Wiebke Galert and Jona Schulze
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2021 33:131
    Content type: Review Published on:

  25. A field study lasting one year was performed to study the effects of a calcium cyanamide fertiliser (trade name: Perlka®) on Collembola in order to support the terrestrial risk assessment under the REACH (Regi...

    Authors: Petra Stegger, Jörg Römbke, Jörg-Alfred Salamon and Klaus Peter Ebke
    Citation: Environmental Sciences Europe 2021 33:130
    Content type: Research Published on: