5 literature results

• The chironomid acute toxicity test: development of a new test system.

  This paper describes the basis for a water-only acute chironomid toxicity test guideline using first-instar larvae. The method is based on the OECD te…

  Authors: Lennart Weltje, Hans Rufli, Fred Heimbach, James Wheeler, Marco Vervliet-Scheebaum, Michael Hamer

  Source: Integrated environmental assessment and management. 2010 Apr

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• Ecological models in support of regulatory risk assessments of pesticides: developing a strategy for the future.

  This brief communication reports on the main findings of the LEMTOX workshop, held from 9 to 12 September 2007, at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmen…

  Authors: Valery E Forbes, Udo Hommen, Pernille Thorbek, Fred Heimbach, Paul J Van den Brink, Jörn Wogram, Hans-Hermann Thulke, Volker Grimm

  Source: Integrated environmental assessment and management. 2009 Jan

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• An individual-based approach to model spatial population dynamics of invertebrates in aquatic ecosystems after pesticide contamination.

  In the present study we present a population model (Metapopulation model for Assessing Spatial and Temporal Effects of Pesticides [MASTEP]) describing…

  Authors: Paul J Van den Brink, J M Hans Baveco, Jana Verboom, Fred Heimbach

  Source: Environmental toxicology and chemistry / SETAC. 2007 Oct

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• Semi-field methods are a useful tool for the environmental risk assessment of pesticides in soil.

  Authors: Andreas Schäffer, Paul van den Brink, Fred Heimbach, Simon Hoy, Frank de Jong, Jörg Römbke, José Paulo Sousa, Martina Ross-Nickoll

  Source: Environmental science and pollution research international. 2008 May

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• Comparing aquatic risk assessment methods for the photosynthesis-inhibiting herbicides metribuzin and metamitron.

  Three different risk assessment procedures are described that aim to protect freshwater habitats from risks of the photosynthesis-inhibiting herbicide…

  Authors: Theo C M Brock, Steven J H Crum, John W Deneer, Fred Heimbach, Rudi M M Roijackers, Jos A Sinkeldam

  Source: Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987). 2004 Aug

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