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Although most plastic pollution originates on land, current research largely remains focused on aquatic ecosystems. Studies pioneering terrestrial microplastic research have adapted analytical methods from aquatic research without acknowledging the complex nature of soil. Meanwhile, novel methods have been developed and further refined. However, methodical inconsistencies still challenge a comprehensive understanding of microplastic occurrence and fate in and on soil. This review aims to disentangle the variety of state-of-the-art sample preparation techniques for heterogeneous solid matrices to identify and discuss best-practice methods for soil-focused microplastic analyses. We show that soil sampling, homogenization, and aggregate dispersion are often neglected or incompletely documented. Microplastic preconcentration is typically performed by separating inorganic soil constituents with high-density salt solutions. Not yet standardized but currently most used separation setups involve overflowing beakers to retrieve supernatant plastics, although closed-design separation funnels probably reduce the risk of contamination. Fenton reagent may be particularly useful to digest soil organic matter if suspected to interfere with subsequent microplastic quantification. A promising new approach is extraction of target polymers with organic solvents. However, insufficiently characterized soils still impede an informed decision on optimal sample preparation. Further research and method development thus requires thorough validation and quality control with well-characterized matrices to enable robust routine analyses for terrestrial microplastics.
Genetische Populationsstruktur europäischer Hyalodaphnia-Arten: Monopolisierung versus Genfluss
(2012)
Die genetische Populationsstruktur von Arten wird von verschiedenen Faktoren beeinflusst, z.B. vom Reproduktionsmodus. Ein spezieller Reproduktionsmodus ist die zyklische Parthenogenese, eine Abwechslung von Phasen asexueller und sexueller Reproduktion. Die klonale Diversität von zyklisch parthenogenetischen Zooplanktonorganismen wird durch die Größe der Dauerstadienbank im Sediment beeinflusst, d.h. durch die Anzahl der sexuell produzierten Dauereier die sich im Sediment akkumulieren. Weiterhin verringert klonale Erosion, ausgelöst durch stochastische und selektive Prozesse, die Diversität über die Zeit. Da zyklisch parthenogenetische Zooplanktonorganismen neue Habitate effektiv monopolisieren können, wurden die Auswirkungen von Genfluss als vernachlässigbar angenommen. Unter Monopolisierung wird die schnelle Vergrößerung der Population verstanden, was zu einem Vorteil für die ersten Ankömmlinge führt (priority-Effekt). Durch lokale Anpassung und das Aufbauen einer Dauerstadienbank wird Genfluss effektiv entgegen gewirkt, da später ankommende Genotypen sich nicht in der Population etablieren können. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit war die Evaluierung der Prozesse, die die populationsgenetische Struktur von zyklisch parthenogenetischen Zooplanktonorganismen beeinflussen, mit besonderem Fokus auf Monopolisierung und Genfluss. Als Organismen wurden Seenarten der Gattung Daphnia eingesetzt, für die zunächst 32 variable Mikrosatellitenmarker entwickelt wurden. Ein ausgewähltes Marker-Set von zwölf Mikrosatellitenmarkern wurde zusätzlich für die Art- und Hybriddetektion getestet. Mit diesem Marker-Set und einem zusätzlichen mitochondrialen DNA-Marker wurden Proben aus 44 europäischen Gewässern untersucht, die die Arten D. cucullata, D. galeata und D. longispina enthielten. Bei D. galeata sind viele Populationen durch eine geringe klonale Diversität charakterisiert, was darauf hindeutet, dass die Dauerstadienbank nur wenig zur klonalen Diversität beiträgt, wodurch die Effekte der klonalen Erosion sehr schnell detektiert werden. Die genetischen Muster zeigen weiterhin auf, dass rezente Expansion stattgefunden hat, die wahrscheinlich durch die anthropogene Veränderung limnischer Ökosysteme hervorgerufen und begünstigt wurde, wobei hier vor allem die Eutrophierung vieler europäischer Seen im Vordergrund steht. Bei D. longispina und D. cucullata wurde eine von D. galeata stark abweichende Populationsstruktur detektiert. Hohe genetische Differenzierung zwischen Populationen spricht für geringen Genfluss was im Einklang mit den Annahmen von Monopolisierung ist.
Weiterhin ist die klonale Diversität vieler Populationen sehr hoch und deutet somit einen großen Einfluss der Dauerstadienbank an, weshalb die Effekte der klonalen Erosion nicht oder nur gering detektiert wurden. Bei der Analyse der mitochondrialen DNA von D. longispina wurde ein Anstieg der Populationsgröße nach der letzten Eiszeit ermittelt, da die Entstehung vieler Gletscherseen, die ein ideales Habitat für D. longispina darstellen, zu einer Expansion dieser Art führte. Nicht nur die klonale Diversität der D. longispina-Populationen war hoch, sondern die genetische Diversität im Allgemeinen. Dies zeigt auf, dass während der Entstehung dieser Populationen Genfluss hoch gewesen sein muss. Um die Prozesse, die während der frühen Entwicklungsphase einer Population herrschen, besser beurteilen zu können, wurde eine experimentelle Studie durchgeführt, die den zeitlichen Vorteil von ankommenden Genotypen auf den Etablierungserfolg dieser Genotypen untersucht.
Es zeigte sich, dass früh ankommende Genotypen einen Vorteil in der Population haben. Bei ähnlicher Fitness war dieser Vorteil langfristig, aber Genotypen mit einer höheren Fitness dominierten die Population auf lange Sicht, unabhängig vom zeitlichen Vorteil den die einzelnen Genotypen zuvor hatten.rnZusammenfassend, die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit zeigen, dass zusätzlich zu den bisher untersuchten Prozessen (lokale Anpassung, klonale Erosion und die Größe der Dauerstadienbank) auch Genfluss die Populationsstruktur zyklisch parthenogenetischer Zooplanktonorganismen effektiv beeinflussen kann. Zum Einen, während der Entstehung von Population können mehrere Genotypen zum Aufbau beitragen. Zum Anderen, bei starken Veränderungen der Umweltfaktoren kann Genfluss stark auf die Populationsstruktur wirken.
Agricultural pesticides, especially insecticides, are an integral part of modern farming. However, these may often leave their target ecosystems and cause adverse effects in non- target, especially freshwater ecosystems, leading to their deterioration. In this thesis, the focus will be on Insect Growth Regulators (IGRs) that can in many ways cause disruption of the endocrine system of invertebrates. Freshwater invertebrates play important ecological, economic and medical roles, and disruption of their endocrine systems may be crucial, considering the important role hormones play in the developmental and reproductive processes in organisms. Although Endocrine Disruption Chemicals (EDCs) can affect moulting, behaviour, morphology, sexual maturity, time to first brood, egg development time, brood size (fecundity), and sex determination in invertebrates, there is currently no agreement upon how to characterize and assess endocrine disruption (ED). Current traditional ecotoxicity tests for Ecological Risk Assessment (ERA) show limitations on generating data at the population level that may be relevant for the assessment of EDCs, which effects may be sublethal, latent and persist for several generations of species (transgenerational).
It is therefore the primary objective of this thesis to use a test method to investigate adverse effects of EDCs on endpoints concerning development and reproduction in freshwater invertebrates. The full life-cycle test over two generations that includes all sensitive life stages of C. riparius (a sexual reproductive organism) allows an assessment of its reproduction and should be suitable for the investigation of long-term toxicity of EDCs in freshwater invertebrates. C. riparius is appropriate for this purpose because of its short life cycle that enables the assessment of functional endpoints of the organism over several generations. Moreover, the chironomid life cycle consists of a complete metamorphosis controlled by a well-known endocrine mechanism and the endocrine system of insects has been most investigated in great detail among invertebrates. Hence, the full life-cycle test with C. riparius provides an approach to assess functional endpoints (e.g. reproduction, sex ratio) that are population-relevant as a useful amendment to the ERA of EDCs. In the laboratory, C. riparius was exposed to environmentally-relevant concentrations of the selected IGRs in either spiked water or spiked sediment scenario over two subsequent generations.
The results reported in this thesis revealed significant effects of the IGRs on the development and the reproduction of C. riparius with the second (F1) generation showing greater sensitivity. These findings indicated for the first time the suitability of multigenerational testing for various groups of EDCs and strongly suggested considering the full life-cycle of C. riparius as an appropriate test method for a better assessment of EDCs in the freshwater environment. In conclusion, this thesis helps to detect additional information that can be extrapolated at population level and, thus, might contribute to better protection of freshwater ecosystems against the risks of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs.) It may furthermore contribute to changes in the ERA process that are necessary for a real implementation of the new European chemical legislation, REACH (Registration, Evaluation Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals). Finally, significant interactions between temperature, chemical exposure and generation were reported for the first time and, may help predict impacts that may occur in the future, in the field, under predicted climate change scenarios.
The global problematic issue of the olive oil industry is in its generation of large amounts of olive mill wastewater (OMW). The direct discharge of OMW to the soil is very common which presents environmental problems for olive oil producing countries. Both, positive as well as negative effects on soil have been found in earlier studies. Therefore, the current study hypothesized that whether beneficial effects or negative effects dominate depends on the prevailing conditions before and after OMW discharge to soil. As such, a better understanding of the OMW-soil interaction mechanisms becomes essential for sustainable safe disposal of OMW on soil and sustainable soil quality.
A field experiment was carried out in an olive orchard in Palestine, over a period of 24 months, in which the OMW was applied to the soil as a single application of 14 L m-2 under four different environmental conditions: in winter (WI), spring (SP), and summer with and without irrigation (SUmoist and SUdry). The current study investigated the effects of seasonal conditions on the olive mill wastewater (OMW) soil interaction in the short-term and the long-term. The degree and persistence of soil salinization, acidification, accumulation of phenolic compounds and soil water repellency were investigated as a function of soil depth and time elapsed after the OMW application. Moreover, the OMW impacts on soil organic matter SOM quality and quantity, total organic carbon (SOC), water-extractable soil organic carbon (DOC), as well as specific ultraviolet absorbance analysis (SUVA254) were also investigated for each seasonal application in order to assess the degree of OMW-OM decomposition or accumulation in soil, and therefore, the persisting effects of OMW disposal to soil.
The results of the current study demonstrate that the degree and persistence of relevant effects due to OMW application on soil varied significantly between the different seasonal OMW applications both in the short-term and the long-term. The negative effects of the potentially hazardous OMW residuals in the soil were highly dependent on the dominant transport mechanisms and transformation mechanisms, triggered by the ambient soil moisture and temperature which either intensified or diminished negative effects of OMW in the soil during and after the application season. The negative effects of OMW disposal to the soil decreased by increasing the retention time of OMW in soil under conditions favoring biological activity. The moderate conditions of soil moisture and temperature allowed for a considerable amount of applied OMW to be biologically degraded, while the prolonged application time under dry conditions and high temperature resulted in a less degradable organic fraction of the OMW, causing the OMW constituents to accumulate and polymerize without being degraded. Further, the rainfall during winter season diminished negative effects of OMW in the soil; therefore, the risk of groundwater contamination by non-degraded constituents of OMW can be highly probable during the winter season.
Statistical eco(-toxico)logy
(2017)
Freshwaters are of immense importance for human well-being.
Nevertheless, they are currently facing unprecedented levels of threat from habitat loss and degradation, overexploitation, invasive species and
pollution.
To prevent risks to aquatic ecosystems, chemical substances, like agricultural pesticides, have to pass environmental risk assessment (ERA) before entering the market.
Concurrently, large-scale environmental monitoring is used for surveillance of biological and chemical conditions in freshwaters.
This thesis examines statistical methods currently used in ERA.
Moreover, it presents a national-scale compilation of chemical monitoring data, an analysis of drivers and dynamics of chemical pollution in streams and, provides a large-scale risk assessment by combination with results from ERA.
Additionally, software tools have been developed to integrate different datasets used in ERA.
The thesis starts with a brief introduction to ERA and environmental monitoring and gives an overview of the objectives of the thesis.
Chapter 2 addresses experimental setups and their statistical analyses using simulations.
The results show that current designs exhibit unacceptably low statistical power, that statistical methods chosen to fit the type of data provide higher power and that statistical practices in ERA need to be revised.
In chapter 3 we compiled all available pesticide monitoring data from Germany.
Hereby, we focused on small streams, similar to those considered in ERA and used threshold concentrations derived during ERA for a large-scale assessment of threats to freshwaters from pesticides.
This compilation resulted in the most comprehensive dataset on pesticide exposure currently available for Germany.
Using state-of-the-art statistical techniques, that explicitly take the limits of quantification into account, we demonstrate that 25% of small streams are at threat from pesticides.
In particular neonicotinoid pesticides are responsible for these threats.
These are associated with agricultural intensity and can be detected even at low levels of agricultural use.
Moreover, our results indicated that current monitoring underestimates pesticide risks, because of a sampling decoupled from precipitation events.
Additionally, we provide a first large-scale study of annual pesticide exposure dynamics.
Chapters 4 and 5 describe software solutions to simplify and accelerate the integration of data from ERA, environmental monitoring and ecotoxicology that is indispensable for the development of landscape-level risk assessment.
Overall, this thesis contributes to the emerging discipline of statistical ecotoxicology and shows that pesticides pose a large-scale threat to small streams.
Environmental monitoring can provide a post-authorisation feedback to ERA.
However, to protect freshwater ecosystems ERA and environmental monitoring need to be further refined and we provide software solutions to utilise existing data for this purpose.
Bei der Olivenölproduktion fallen innerhalb kürzester Zeit große Mengen Olivenabwasser (OMW) an. OMW kann aufgrund seines hohen Nährstoffgehalts als landwirtschaftlicher Dünger eingesetzt werden. Doch seine öligen und phenolischen Bestandteile schaden dem Boden. Es ist nicht bekannt, inwiefern jahreszeitliche Temperatur- und Niederschlagsschwankungen den Verbleib und die Wirkung der Abwasserkomponenten im Boden längerfristig beeinflussen. Um dem nachzugehen, wurden jeweils 14 L OMW m-2 im Winter, Frühling und Sommer auf verschiedenen Parzellen einer Olivenplantage ausgebracht. Hydrologische Bodeneigenschaften (Wassertropfeneindringzeit, Wasserleitfähigkeit, Kontaktwinkel), physikalisch-chemische Parameter (pH, EC, lösliche Ionen, phenolische Verbindungen, organischer Kohlenstoff) sowie der biologische Abbau (Köderstreifen) wurden erfasst, um den Zustand des Bodens nach der Applikation zu beurteilen. Nach einer Regensaison war die Bodenqualität der im Sommer behandelten Flächen signifikant reduziert. Dies wurde insbesondere anhand einer dreimal niedrigeren biologischen Fraßaktivität, zehnmal höherer Hydrophobizität, sowie einem viermal höheren Gehalt an phenolischen Substanzen im Vergleich zu den Kontrollflächen deutlich. Die Ausbringung im Winter zeigte gegenteilige Effekte, welche das natürliche Regenerierungspotential des Bodens erkennen lassen. Der Einfluss der Frühlingsapplikation lag zwischen den zuvor genannten. Es wurden keinerlei Anzeichen auf Verlagerung von OMW-Bestandteilen in tiefere Bodenschichten beobachtet. Während der feuchten Jahreszeiten gilt die Ausbringung gesetzlich begrenzter Mengen Olivenabwasser somit als vertretbar. Weitere Forschung ist notwendig um den Einfluss von Frühlingsapplikationen zu quantifizieren und weitere Erkenntnisse über die Zusammensetzung und Mobilität organischer OMW-Bestandteile im Boden zu gewinnen.
The use of agricultural plastic covers has become common practice for its agronomic benefits such as improving yields and crop quality, managing harvest times better, and increasing pesticide and water use efficiency. However, plastic covers are suspected of partially breaking down into smaller debris and thereby contributing to soil pollution with microplastics. A better understanding of the sources and fate of plastic debris in terrestrial systems has so far been hindered by the lack of adequate analytical techniques for the mass-based and polymer-selective quantification of plastic debris in soil. The aim of this dissertation was thus to assess, develop, and validate thermoanalytical methods for the mass-based quantification of relevant polymers in and around agricultural fields previously covered with fleeces, perforated foils, and plastic mulches. Thermogravimetry/mass spectrometry (TGA/MS) enabled direct plastic analyses of 50 mg of soil without any sample preparation. With polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as a preliminary model, the method limit of detection (LOD) was 0.7 g kg−1. But the missing chromatographic separation complicated the quantification of polymer mixtures. Therefore, a pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) method was developed that additionally exploited the selective solubility of polymers in specific solvents prior to analysis. By dissolving polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS) in a mixture of 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene and p-xylene after density separation, up to 50 g soil became amenable to routine plastic analysis. Method LODs were 0.7–3.3 mg kg−1, and the recovery of 20 mg kg−1 PE, PP, and PS from a reference loamy sand was 86–105%. In the reference silty clay, however, poor PS recoveries, potentially induced by the additional separation step, suggested a qualitative evaluation of PS. Yet, the new solvent-based Py-GC/MS method enabled a first exploratory screening of plastic-covered soil. It revealed PE, PP, and PS contents above LOD in six of eight fields (6% of all samples). In three fields, PE levels of 3–35 mg kg−1 were associated with the use of 40 μm thin perforated foils. By contrast, 50 μm PE films were not shown to induce plastic levels above LOD. PP and PS contents of 5–19 mg kg−1 were restricted to single observations in four fields and potentially originated from littering. The results suggest that the short-term use of thicker and more durable plastic covers should be preferred to limit plastic emissions and accumulation in soil. By providing mass-based information on the distribution of the three most common plastics in agricultural soil, this work may facilitate comparisons with modeling and effect data and thus contribute to a better risk assessment and regulation of plastics. However, the fate of plastic debris in the terrestrial environment remains incompletely understood and needs to be scrutinized in future, more systematic research. This should include the study of aging processes, the interaction of plastics with other organic and inorganic compounds, and the environmental impact of biodegradable plastics and nanoplastics.
Der nachhaltige Grundwasserschutz erfordert ein Bewertungssystem, das Aussagen über den Ökosystemzustand zulässt. Folglich sollten, zusätzlich zu physikochemischen Analysen, auch faunistische und mikrobiologische Kriterien bei der Grundwasserbewertung berücksichtigt werden. Um die Anwendbarkeit und Eignung von Grundwasserorganismen für eine qualitative Grundwasserbewertung zu überprüfen, wurden zwischen 2002 und 2009 umfassende Untersuchungen verschiedener Grundwasservorkommen Deutschlands durchgeführt. Schwerpunkte waren die Überprüfung des Indikatorpotenzials von Grundwasserlebensgemeinschaften gegenüber Oberflächenwasser-Grundwasser-Interaktionen und anthropogener Belastungen sowie die Analyse stygofaunaler Verbreitungsmuster, als Basis und Referenz für ein faunistisches Bewertungssystem für Grundwasserlebensräume. Die Grundwasseruntersuchungen berücksichtigen lokale, regionale und biogeografische Verhältnisse. Um das Indikatorpotenzial der Grundwasserorganismen auf lokaler und regionaler Skala zu überprüfen, wurden Grundwassersysteme in Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) und Baden-Württemberg (BW) untersucht. Anhand der faunistischen und mikrobiologischen Daten aus quartären Lockergesteinsleitern im Erftgebiet (NRW) konnte die Sensibilität der Grundwasserorganismen gegenüber Landnutzungseffekten, z. B. extensive Landwirtschaft, aufgezeigt werden. Die Datenanalysen ergaben positive Korrelationen von organischem Material (geschätzter Detritus, TOC) und Nitrat mit der faunistischen Abundanz, Artenzahl und Diversität sowie dem Anteil grundwasserfremder Arten. Auch die bakterielle Abundanz und Diversität im Grundwasser des Erftgebiets war, verglichen mit oligotrophen Grundwassersystemen, hoch.
Die Grundwassergemeinschaften zeigen einen erhöhten Oberflächeneintrag ins Grundwasser an, der mit der starken landwirtschaftlichen Nutzung einhergeht. Die Besiedlung des Grundwassers im Alb-Donau-Kreis (BW) wurde auf regionale (Naturraum, Grundwasserleitertyp, Hydrogeologie) und lokale Effekte (Vergleich einzelner Messstellen) untersucht. Dabei reflektierte die Fauna die Stärke des hydrologischen Austauschs auf unterschiedlichen räumlichen Skalen und zeigte auch die Überlagerung regionaler und lokaler Effekte an. Demnach hatten die hohe Konnektivität der untersuchten Karst- und Lockergesteinssysteme, Landnutzung, abschirmende Deckschichten, unterschiedliches Grundwasseralter und Messstellentiefe Auswirkungen auf die Diversität und Abundanz der Gemeinschaften. Die Bakteriengemeinschaften reflektierten vor allem die Zugehörigkeit aller Messstellen zu einem Grundwassersystem. Insgesamt sind die faunistischen und mikrobiologischen Daten charakteristisch für oligotrophe, oligoalimonische Grundwässer. Die Untersuchung großräumiger Besiedlungsmuster der Grundwasserfauna ergab signifikante biogeografische Unterschiede. Die subterranen Besiedlungsmuster weichen deutlich von bestehenden Gliederungssystemen für oberirdische Landschaften oder Fließgewässerzönosen ab. Die größten Abweichungen zwischen den stygofaunalen Verbreitungsmustern und den oberirdischen Gliederungssystemen wurden vor allem in den eiszeitlich überprägten Gebieten Nord- und Süddeutschlands sowie in den Vorgebirgsregionen der zentralen Mittelgebirge beobachtet.
Anhand der erfassten Daten konnten vier Stygoregionen definiert werden, die deutlich unterschiedliche Faunengemeinschaften aufweisen: 1) das "Nördliche Tiefland", 2) die "Zentralen Mittelgebirge", 3) die "Südwestlichen Mittelgebirge" sowie 4) die "Südlichen Mittelgebirge und die Alpen". Die Ergebnisse zeigen die generelle Anwendbarkeit und Eignung der Stygofauna und der mikrobiellen Gemeinschaften für die qualitative Bewertung von Grundwasserökosystemen. Für die biologische Bewertung von Grundwassersystemen sind die faunistische Diversität, Abundanz und die Artenzusammensetzung, die Einteilung in stygobionte (obligate Grundwasserarten) und nicht-sytgobionte Arten sowie die bakterielle Abundanz geeignete Indikatoren für anthropogene Belastungen im Grundwasser. Die Entwicklung eines ökologisch orientierten Erfassungs- und Bewertungssystem für Grundwasserlebensräume ist unabdingbar für ein nachhaltiges Grundwassermanagement, welches den Erhalt unserer Grundwassersysteme und Trinkwasserversorgung gewährleistet. Die Definition von Stygoregionen ist ein entscheidender Schritt für die Entwicklung eines Bewertungs- und Referenzsystems für Grundwasserlebensräume. Die Bewertung des Ökosystemzustands von Grundwassersystemen muss jedoch auf lokaler Skala erfolgen, da die Zusammensetzung der Grundwassergemeinschaften durch die Stärke des lokalen hydrologischen Austauschs mit Oberflächensystemen geprägt ist. Von diesem hängt die Menge an verfügbarer Nahrung, Sauerstoff und konkurrierenden Oberflächenarten im Grundwasser abhängt. Zusätzlich sind Kenntnisse biogeografischer und regionaler Verhältnisse notwendig - als Referenz für das potenzielle Vorkommen von Arten und Abundanzen bestimmter Grundwassersysteme.
Global crop production increased substantially in recent decades due to agricultural intensification and expansion and today agricultural areas occupy about 38% of Earth’s terrestrial surface - the largest use of land on the planet. However, current high-intensity agricultural practices fostered in the context of the Green Revolution led to serious consequences for the global environment. Pesticides, in particular, are highly biologically active substances that can threaten the ecological integrity of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Although the global pesticide use increases steadily, our field-data based knowledge regarding exposure of non-target ecosystems such as surface waters is very restricted. Available studies have by now been limited to spatially restricted geographical areas or had rather specific objectives rendering the extrapolation to larger spatial scales questionable.
Consequently, this thesis evaluated based on four scientific publications the exposure, effects, and regulatory implications of particularly toxic insecticides` concentrations detected in global agricultural surface waters. FOCUS exposure modelling was used to characterise the highly specific insecticide exposure patterns and to analyse the resulting implications for both monitoring and risk assessment (publication I). Based on more than 200,000 scientific database entries, 838 peer-reviewed studies finally included, and more than 2,500 sites in 73 countries, the risks of agricultural insecticides to global surface waters were analysed by means of a comprehensive meta-analysis (publication II). This meta-analysis evaluated whether insecticide field concentrations exceed legally accepted regulatory threshold levels (RTLs) derived from official EU and US pesticide registration documents and, amongst others, how risks depend on insecticide development over time and stringency of environmental regulation. In addition, an in-depth analysis of the current EU pesticide regulations provided insights into the level of protection and field relevance of highly elaborated environmental regulatory risk assessment schemes (publications III and IV).
The results of this thesis show that insecticide surface water exposure is characterized by infrequent and highly transient concentration peaks of high ecotoxicological relevance. We thus argue in publication I that sampling based on regular intervals is inadequate for the detection of insecticide surface water concentrations and that traditional risk assessment concepts based on all insecticide concentrations including non-detects lead to severely biased results and critical underestimations of risks. Based on these considerations, publication II demonstrates that out of 11,300 measured insecticide concentrations (MICs; i.e., those actually detected and quantified), 52.4% (5,915 cases; 68.5%) exceeded the RTL for either water (RTLSW) or sediments. This indicates a substantial risk for the biological integrity of global water resources as additional analyses on pesticide effects in the field clearly evidence that the regional aquatic biodiversity is reduced by approximately 30% at pesticide concentrations equalling the RTLs. In addition, publication II shows that there is a complete lack of scientific monitoring data for ~90% of global cropland and that both the actual insecticide contamination of surface waters and the resulting ecological risks are most likely even greater due to, for example, inadequate sampling methods employed in the studies and the common occurrence of pesticide mixtures. A linear model analysis identified that RTLSW exceedances depend on the catchment size, sampling regime, sampling date, insecticide substance class, and stringency of countries` environmental regulations, as well as on the interactions of these factors. Importantly, the risks are significantly higher for newer-generation insecticides (i.e., pyrethroids) and are high even in countries with stringent environmental regulations. Regarding the latter, an analysis of the EU pesticide regulations revealed critical deficiencies and the lack of protectiveness and field-relevance for current presumed highly elaborated FOCUS exposure assessment (publication IV) and overall risk assessment schemes (publication III). Based on these findings, essential risk assessment amendments are proposed.
In essence, this thesis analyses the agriculture–environment linkages for pesticides at the global scale and it thereby contributes to a new research frontier in global ecotoxicology. The overall findings substantiate that agricultural insecticides are potential key drivers for the global freshwater biodiversity crisis and that the current regulatory risk assessment approaches for highly toxic anthropogenic chemicals fail to protect the global environment. This thesis provides an integrated view on the environmental side effects of global high-intensity agriculture and alerts that beside worldwide improvements to current pesticide regulations and agricultural pesticide application practices, the fundamental reformation of conventional agricultural systems is urgently needed to meet the twin challenges of providing sufficient food for a growing human population without destroying the ecological integrity of global ecosystems essential to human existence.
Aquatic macrophytes can contribute to the retention of organic contaminants in streams, whereas knowledge on the dynamics and the interaction of the determining processes is very limited. The objective of the present study was thus to assess how aquatic macrophytes influence the distribution and the fate of organic contaminants in small vegetated streams. In a first study that was performed in vegetated stream mesocosms, the peak reductions of five compounds were significantly higher in four vegetated stream mesocosms compared to a stream mesocosm without vegetation. Compound specific sorption to macrophytes was determined, the mass retention in the vegetated streams, however, did not explain the relationship between the mitigation of contaminant peaks and macrophyte coverage. A subsequent mesocosm study revealed that the mitigation of peak concentrations in the stream mesocosms was governed by two fundamentally different processes: dispersion and sorption. Again, the reductions of the peak concentrations of three different compounds were in the same order of magnitude in a sparsely and a densely vegetated stream mesocosm, respectively, but higher compared to an unvegetated stream mesocosm. The mitigation of the peak reduction in the sparsely vegetated stream mesocosm was found to be fostered by longitudinal dispersion as a result of the spatial distribution of the macrophytes in the aqueous phase. The peak reduction attributable to longitudinal dispersion was, however, reduced in the densely vegetated stream mesocosm, which was compensated by compound-specific but time-limited and reversible sorption to macrophytes. The observations on the reversibility of sorption processes were subsequently confirmed by laboratory experiments. The experiments revealed that sorption to macrophytes lead to compound specific elimination from the aqueous phase during the presence of transient contaminant peaks in streams. After all, these sorption processes were found to be fully reversible, which results in the release of the primarily adsorbed compounds, once the concentrations in the aqueous phase starts to decrease. Nevertheless, the results of the present thesis demonstrate that the processes governing the mitigation of contaminant loads in streams are fundamentally different to those already described for non-flowing systems. In addition, the present thesis provides knowledge on how the interaction of macrophyte-induced processes in streams contributes to mitigate loads of organic contaminants and the related risk for aquatic environments.