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The conservation of groundwater ecosystems requires an assessment and evaluation scheme that shows the state of the ecosystem. Consequently, faunal and microbial criteria are required for groundwater monitoring, in addition to physico-chemical analyses. To proof the adequacy of the application of groundwater organisms for the biological assessment of groundwater quality, an extensive sampling collection of various groundwater systems was accomplished between 2002 and 2009 in Germany. Key aspects were the examination of the indicator potential of groundwater communities towards surface-groundwater interactions and anthropogenic impacts, as well as the analysis of stygofaunal distribution patterns, as a base and reference for a faunal assessment scheme of groundwater systems. The sampling design considered local, regional, and biogeographic conditions. To test the indicator potential of groundwater organisms on a local and regional scale, groundwater systems in Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) and Baden-Württemberg (BW) were examined. The faunal and microbial data from unconsolidated aquifers (Erftgebiet, NRW) show the sensitivity of groundwater organisms against land use effects, e.g. extensive agriculture. Data analyses revealed positive correlations of organic material (estimated amount of detritus, TOC) and nitrate with faunal abundance, species richness, diversity and the proportions of stygoxene species. Moreover, the bacterial abundance and diversity in the groundwater of the Erftgebiet was high compared to oligotrophic groundwater systems, indicating an effect of surface influence due to agricultural land use. The groundwater colonization in the Alb-Donau-Kreis (BW) was analyzed for regional effects (landscape, type of aquifer, hydrogeology) and local effects (comparing single wells). The results show that the fauna reflects the strength of the hydrological exchange on different spatial scales. Furthermore, the fauna reflects the interaction of regional and local conditions. Accordingly, the diversity and abundance of groundwater organisms was influenced by the high connectivity of the karst and unconsolidated alluvial aquifers, the type of land use, covering layers of soil, the age of groundwater, and the sampling depths. In general, faunal and microbial data of the Alb-Donau-Kreis are characteristic for oligotrophic, oligoalimonic groundwaters. The large scale analyses of stygofaunal distribution patterns revealed significant biogeographical differences of the communities. These community patterns of the groundwater fauna do not coincide with existing classification schemes defined for surface landscapes or freshwater systems. The largest differences between faunal surface and subsurface distribution patterns were found between the groundwater of northern and southern Germany and the foothills of the central mountain ranges - all of them regions shaped by the last ice ages.
In accordance with the faunal data assessed in groundwater, four different stygoregions were defined that are populated by distinct faunal assemblages. These are 1) the "Northern lowlands", 2) the "Central mountain ranges", 3) the "South-western mountain ranges", and 4) the "Southern mountain ranges and northern alps". The study corroborates that stygofaunal and microbial communities are an adequate tool for the qualitative assessment and monitoring of groundwater ecosystems. The best indicators to detect anthropogenic impacts on groundwater ecosystems are the faunal diversity, abundance, the proportions of stygobitic (obligate groundwater species) and stygoxene species (species not obligate for groundwater), and the bacterial abundance. The development of an ecologically based groundwater assessment and management, is crucial for the conservation of our groundwater ecosystems and thus, healthy drinking water. The defintion of "stygoregions" is an important base for the development of an assessment and reference scheme for groundwater ecosystems. The assessment of the ecological state of groundwater systems must be conducted on local scale, because the strength of the local hydrological influence determines the amount of food and oxygen as well as stygoxene animals within the aquifer, and thus shapes the local groundwater communities. Nevertheless, information of the biogeographic and regional conditions is needed as a reference for the type of species and abundances that potentially can occur in certain groundwater systems.
Heat exchangers are used for thickening of various products or desalination of saltwater. Nevertheless, they are used as cooling unit in industries. Thereby, the stainless steel heat transferring elements get in contact with microorganism containing media, such as river water or saltwater, and corrode. After at least two years of utilization the material is covered with bacterial slime called biofilm. This process is called biofouling and causes loss in efficiency and creates huge costs depending on cleaning technique and efficiency. Cleaning a heat exchanger is very expensive and time consuming. It only can be done while the device is out of business.
Changing the surface properties of materials is the best and easiest way to lengthen the initial phase of biofilm formation. This leads to less biofouling (Mogha et al. 2014).
Thin polymer films as novel materials have less costs in production than stainless steel and are easy to handle. Furthermore, they can be functionalzed easily and can be bougth in different sizes all over the world. Because of this, they can reduce the costs of cleaning techniques and lead to a longer high efficiency state of the heat exchanger. If the efficiency of the heat exchanger decreases, the thin polymer films can be replaced.
For a successful investigation of the microbial and the process engineering challenges a cooperation of Technical University of Kaiserslautern (chair of seperation science and technology) and University of Koblenz-Landau (working goup microbiology) was established.
The aim of this work was design engineering and production of a reactor for investigation of biofouling taking place on thin polymeric films and stainless steel. Furthermore, an experimental design has to be established. Several requirements have to be applied for these tasks. Therefore, a real heat exchanger is downscaled, so the process parameters are at least comparable. There are many commercial flow cell kits available. Reducing the costs by selfassembling increased the number of samples, so there is a basis for statistic analysis. In addition, fast and minimal invasive online-in-situ microscopy and Raman spectroscopy can be performed. By creating laminary flow and using a weir we implemented homogenous inflow to the reactors. Reproduceable data on biomass and cell number were created.
The assessment of biomass and cell number is well established for drinking water analysis. Epifluorescense microscopy and gravimetric determination are the basic techniques for this work, too. Differences in cell number and biomass between surface modifications and materials are quantified and statistically analysed.
The wildtype strain Escherichia coli K12 and an inoculum of 500 ml fresh water were used to describe the biofouling of the films. Thereby, we generated data with natural bacterial community in unknown media properties and data with well known media properties, so the technical relevance of the data is given.
Free surface energy and surface roughness are the first attachment hurdles for bacteria. These parameters were measured according to DIN 55660 and DIN EN ISO 4287. The materials science data were correlated with the number of cells and the biomass. This correlation acts as basal link of biofouling as biological induced parameter to the material properties. Material properties for reducing the biofouling can be prospected.
By using Raman spectroscopy as a cutting edge method future investigations could be shortened. If biomass or cell number can be linked with the spectra, new functional materials can be investigated in a short time.
Galerucinae, Latreille 1802 is the second largest subgroup of chrysomelidae. 1837 Chervrolat described the taxon Ootheca, which has originally only one listed species. Nearly 200 years all galerucinae with a "compact" bodyshape, a broad pronotum, a convex dorsum , short antennae and short legs were assigned to Ootheca. When I started a revision of Ootheca, this taxon included 38 species. Comparing morphological characters of the exoskeleton combined with the depiction/description of characteristic structures of the male genitalia allowed a detailed description of the genus Ootheca and its species. After the revision 9 valid species remained in Ootheca, 4 are described to be new, 13 species were transferred to other valid described genera and 10 species remained, because of a lack of unambiguous assignment. The examination of the median lobe additionally enables me to describe three sister taxa: Oothecoides (6 species), Ootibia (5 species ) und Oosagitta (6 species).
In this study the influence of soil moisture and soil type on the selected pests and diseases Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary, Fusarium graminearum Schwabe and F. culmorum (W.G. Smith) Saccardo, respectively, as well as the larvae of the most important Elateridae Agriotes lineatus Linnaeus, A. obscurus Linnaeus, A. sputator Linnaeus, A. sordidus Illiger and A. ustulatus Schaller (called wireworms) was characterized. The aim was to integrate soil modules in prediction models for agricultural and horticultural pests and diseases, to optimise the scheduling of disease controls, to detect periods of high-intensity attacks and to reduce the number of preventive treatments. The measurement of soil moisture is time intensive and additionally soil moisture is highly varying within small areas. Therefore this parameter did not have a high impact in the prediction models for agricultural and horticultural pests and diseases in the past. In this study the possibilities for a site-specific simulation of soil moisture was investigated. The soil moisture simulation model SIMPEL (HÖRMANN 1998) was adapted to agricultural conditions and the site-specific simulation of soil moisture was realised on the basis of radar measured precipitation data from the German Meteorological Service (DWD) and on interpolated weather data (ZEUNER 2007). The comparison of the simulated soil moisture data with the field measurements showed a highly significant correlation (Alpha = 0.01) and an average of 3.8 % differences. Therefore the site-specific simulation of soil moisture will be possible and can be included in the prediction models for agricultural and horticultural pests and diseases. The results of laboratory and field experiments as well as analyses on monitoring data showed, that the influence of soil parameters on the three selected pests and diseases varied. Whereas the investigations on the influence of soil moisture on P. infestans identified no clear correlation, considerable correlations between soil moisture and soil type on wireworms as well as F. graminearum and F. culmorum could be detected. For the prediction of the appearance of wireworms in the upper soil level in relation to soil moisture and soil type the simulation model SIMAGRIO-W was developed. The validation of the new model showed highly significant correlations between soil moisture and soil type on the appearance of wireworms. The influence of soil type on F. graminearum and F. culmorum was integrated in the existing prediction model FUS-OPT. A correlation between air cached spores of F. graminearum and simulation results from the modified model FUS-OPT showed a high significance in PEARSON test. The results of this study showed that the implementation of soil moisture and soil type in the prediction models for agricultural and horticultural pests and diseases can be realised. The developed and modified prediction models can be used by the Governmental Crop Protection Services in Germany through www.isip.de.
Entwicklung eines Computermodells der lumbalen Wirbelsäule zur Bestimmung mechanischer Belastungen
(2009)
Ziel der Arbeit war die Erstellung eines MKS-Modells der menschlichen lumbalen Wirbelsäule zur Ermittlung der mechanischen Belastungen innerer Körperstrukturen. Die Oberflächen der Wirbelkörper wurden aus CT-Daten menschlichen Sektionsguts als CAD-Oberflächen generiert und bilden das Grundgerüst des Modells. Die genaue Positionierung des Facettengelenke ist dabei vorgegeben ebenso wie die Ansatzpunkte und Verlaufsrichtungen der ligamentösen Strukturen. Zwischen den starren Wirbelkörpern wurden elastische Bandscheiben eingeführt, deren Mittelpunkte als jeweiliges Drehzentrum der entsprechenden funktionalen Einheiten definiert sind. Damit sind gleichzeitig die Hebelarme zu den Ansatzpunkten der einzelnen Bänder festgelegt. Das mechanische Verhalten dieser verschiedenen Strukturen wurde über physiologische Gleichungen oder Kennlinien in das Modell implementiert. So wurde für die Facettengelenke ein Ansatz für Kontaktkräfte in horizontaler Richtung eingeführt. Für die Kraftentwicklung bei Dehnung der Bänder fanden individuelle Kennlinien aus der Literatur Verwendung. Bei der Deformation der Bandscheiben folgt die Kraftentwicklung einer mechanischen Relation in Abhängigkeit der Deformation sowie der Deformationsgeschwindigkeit. Die entsprechenden Materialkonstanten in den Gleichungen wurden über experimentelle Messdaten aus der Literatur ermittelt. Dem Aufbau von Drehmomenten bei Auslenkung der Bandscheiben um die drei möglichen Rotationsachsen liegen wiederum Kennlinien aus der Literatur zugrunde. In Anpassung an diese experimentell ermittelten Kurven wurden mechanische Gleichungen entwickelt, die letztendlich in das Modell implementiert wurden und die bei jeweiliger Verdrehung der Bandscheibe die Entwicklung eines entsprechenden Moments angeben. Die Validierung des Modells erfolgt auf der einen Seite über die Gleichgewichtsbedingung, bei der die Summe aller Kräfte und Drehmomente bezüglich des Schwerpunkts einer funktionalen Einheit Null sein muss. Dieser Zustand konnte mit dem Modell eindeutig nachgewiesen werden. Auf der anderen Seite konnten punktuell Messergebnisse aus der Literatur über die Modellrechnungen in guter Näherung reproduziert werden. Hier besteht jedoch die Schwierigkeit, dass Messungen an Sektionsgut immer nur in isoliertem Zustand und in einem definierten Versuchsaufbau mit Belastung nur einer Richtung durchgeführt wurden. Innerhalb des Modells befinden sich die Strukturen in einem beweglichen Verbund und unterliegen damit vielfältigen mechanischen Einflüssen, was der Realität im menschlichen Körper auch wesentlich mehr entspricht. Dennoch spiegelt das Materialverhalten der elastischen Elemente innerhalb des Modells größenordnungsmäßig die Ergebnisse der verschiedensten experimentellen Messungen aus der Literatur wider. Zur Simulation unterschiedlicher Belastungssituationen wurde das Modell der Lendenwirbelsäule in verschiedenen Fallbeispielen der Einwirkung einer jeweils konstanten äußeren Kraft unterschiedlicher Größe ausgesetzt. Nach einer kurzen Phase der Bewegung aller Teilstrukturen stellte sich in jedem gerechneten Fallbeispiel ein neuer Gleichgewichtszustand ein. Für alle implementierten Strukturen, wie Bandscheiben, Bänder und Facettengelenke, konnte der zeitliche Verlauf der Belastungszunahme sowie die Belastung im Endzustand berechnet werden. Eine Überprüfung ergab, dass sich alle Ergebnisse im physiologisch gesunden Wertebereich befanden. Damit ist der Nachweis erbracht, dass mit dem vorliegenden Modell ein Instrument entwickelt wurde, das im Rahmen der Genauigkeit des Modells die Belastung der inneren Strukturen bei äußerer Krafteinwirkung zuverlässig berechnet werden können. Die Anwendungen eines derartigen Modells sind vielfältiger Art. Durch Variationen von Parametern können die verschiedensten Situationen simuliert werden. Beispiele sind hier die Auswirkung von degenerierten Bandscheiben mit völlig anderem Materialverhalten auf die umgebenden gesunden Teilstrukturen. Weitere Krankheitsbilder wie schwache Bänder, Wirbelgleiten, Knochenveränderungen oder auch der Einfluss von operativen Maßnahmen wie Versteifung einzelner Abschnitte oder die Einsetzung von Implantaten können damit simuliert werden und ermöglichen quantitative Aussagen über die Veränderung der Beanspruchung der angrenzenden Strukturen. Als Beispiel einer Anwendung in der Medizin wurde der Fall einer degenerierten Bandscheibe aufgezeigt. Die Bandscheibe wurde chirurgisch entfernt und durch ein Implantat zur Versteifung ersetzt. Mit Hilfe der Simulationsrechnung wurde die Auswirkung der Versteifung auf die Deformation der angrenzenden Bandscheiben und die veränderte Kraftentwicklung dargelegt.
In dieser Arbeit wurde der Einfluss von nicht wässrigen Mahlflüssigkeiten auf Metall-Keramik-Pulvermischungen im Nassmahlprozess untersucht. Es wurden Al- und Cr-Al₂O₃-Pulvermischungen ausgewählt, um den Einfluss der Mahlflüssigkeiten auf die Mahlung von Metall-Keramik-Pulvermischungen mit einer duktilen (Aluminium) und einer spröden (Chrom) Metallkomponente zu untersuchen.
Die Wirbelsäule als tragende Säule des menschlichen Körpers ist bei vielen Bewegungsabläufen hohen Belastungen ausgesetzt. Fehl- und Überbelastungen rufen dabei oft dauerhafte Schädigungen hervor. Daher ist es von Interesse, die innerhalb der Wirbelsäule auftretenden Belastungen zu bestimmen. Eine moderne und zuverlässige Methode zur Belastungsbestimmung ist der Aufbau eines Berechnungsmodells.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde ein Mehr-Körper-System (MKS) Modell der Lendenwirbelsäule erstellt. Mit Hilfe des Modells können sowohl die übertragenen Kräfte und Momente in allen inneren Strukturen berechnet als auch die Kinematik des Bewegungsablaufs simuliert werden. Die Grundstruktur des Modells bilden die als Starrkörper angenommenen knöchernen Strukturen der fünf Lendenwirbel L1 bis L5, des Os Sacrums und des Os iliums, die über die Segmentierung eines CT-Datensatzes des Abgusses der Wirbeloberflächen eines durchschnittlich großen Europäers gewonnen wurden. Die elastischen Elemente der Wirbelsäule wurden unter Berücksichtigung ihrer physikalischen Eigenschaften in das Modell implementiert. Grundlage für die Modellierung der Zwischenwirbelscheiben waren dabei eigens durchgeführte experimentelle Messungen. Das charakteristische Kraft-Deformations-Verhalten der Ligamente wurde der Literatur entnommen.
Die Umsetzung im Computermodell berücksichtigt neben dem physikalischen Verhalten eines einzelnen Ligamentes zusätzlich durch einen Gewichtungsfaktor das Zusammenspiel aller Ligamente im komplex aufgebauten Ligamentapparat. Die Facettengelenke wurden durch Kontaktmodellierung in den Knorpelschichten realisiert. Daneben wurde ein Modell eines Implantatsystems entwickelt, das zur dynamischen Stabilisierung der Lendenwirbelsäule genutzt wird. Die Validierung der erstellten Modelle erfolgte über den Vergleich mit In-Vitro erhobenen Daten. Betrachtet wurden neben der intakten Wirbelsäule zudem degenerative Schädigungen der Zwischenwirbelscheibe und deren operative Versorgung durch Nukleotomie und dynamische Stabilisierung. Die Ergebnisse der Simulationen zeigen dabei eine sehr gute Näherung an die experimentell ermittelten Messwerte. Durch Anwendung der Computermodelle konnten die Auswirkungen verschiedener operativer Eingriffe, wie Interlaminotomie, Hemilaminektomie und Laminektomie auf die unterschiedlichen Strukturen der Lendenwirbelsäule berechnet werden. Ein weiteres Anwendungsgebiet lag in der Untersuchung des momentanen Drehzentrums. Neben der Bestimmung der Drehpunktbahn bei intakter Wirbelsäule konnten die Effekte einer degenerativ geschädigten und operativ versorgten Zwischenwirbelscheibe auf den Verlauf des momentanen Drehzentrums berechnet und simuliert werden.
The transport of pesticides from agricultural land into surface waters via diffuse entry pathways such as runoff is a major threat to aquatic ecosystems and their communities. Although certain risk mitigation measures are currently stipulated during pesticide product authorisation, further approaches might be needed to manage hot spots of pesticide exposure. Such a management is, for example, required by the European Union- directive for the sustainable use pesticides (2009/128/EC).
The need for mitigation measures was investigated within the present thesis at stream sites draining an arable and a vineyard region in Germany by characterising pesticide exposure following edge-of-field runoff and (expected) effects on the aquatic macroinvertebrates. The results of these field studies showed, that streams in both regions were exposed to pesticide concentrations suggesting effects on the macroinvertebrate community. In the arable region the observed toxicity was mainly attributed to the insecticides lambda-cyhalothrin (in the water-phase samples) and alpha-cypermethrin (in the suspended particle samples), whereas in the vineyard region fungicides were most important. Furthermore stream water and suspended particles sampled in the vineyard region showed critical copper concentrations, which might cause ecotoxicological effects in the field. In addition to pesticide exposure, in the arable region also the effects on aquatic macroinvertebrates were assessed in the field. Generally, invertebrate fauna was dominated by pesticide-tolerant species, which suggested a high pesticide exposure at almost all sites. The elevated levels of suspended particle contamination in terms of maximum toxic units per sample (logTUMax > -2) reflect also this result. At two sites that received high aqueous-phase entries of the insecticide lambda-cyhalothrin (logTUMax > -0.6), the abundance and number of sensitive species (indicated by the SPEcies At Risk index) decreased during the pesticide application period. In contrast, at sites characterised by low water-phase toxicity (logTUMax < -3.5), no acute significant negative effects on macroinvertebrates were observed. In conclusion these data showed that in both regions the implementation of risk mitigation measures is needed to protect the aquatic communities.
To mitigate runoff-related pesticide entries, riparian buffer strips are often recommended. However, the mitigating influence with increasing buffer strip width could not be demonstrated for riparian buffers which were already present in the arable and vineyard region. This result was attributed in the vineyard region to the high number of paved field paths associated with artificial erosion rills, which concentrate and rapidly transport receiving edge-of-field runoff in stream direction. Consequently the pesticide reduction efficiency of buffer strips is considerably reduced. We assumed that a similar process occurred in the arable region, due to a high number of erosion rills, which complicate a laminar sheet flow of edge-of-field runoff through the riparian buffer strip. Additionally also the presence of ephemeral drainage ditches, which led surface runoff from the agricultural fields to the streams may have contributed to observed pesticide entries despite wide buffers.
Effective risk mitigation measures should address these identified most important input pathways in the study areas. As possible measures the implementation of grassed field paths and vegetated ditches or wetlands were suggested. In general also the improvement of currently present riparian buffer strips regarding their efficiency to reduce pesticide runoff entries should be taken into account. In conclusion the results of the field studies underline the importance that risk mitigation measures are identified specifically for the respective pollution situation in stream catchments. To facilitate this process, a user guide was developed within the present thesis for identifying appropriate mitigation measures at high-risk sites. Based on a survey of exposure relevant landscape parameter a set of risk mitigation measures is suggested that focus on the specific pollution situation. Currently the guide includes 12 landscape- and six application-related measures and presents an overview of these measures" efficiency to reduce pesticide entries via runoff and spray drift, their feasibility and expected acceptability to farmers. Based on this information the user can finally choose the mitigation measures for implementation. The present guide promotes the practical implementation of appropriate risk mitigation measures in pesticide-polluted streams, and thus the protection of aquatic stream communities against pesticide entries.