The biodiversity crisis is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, but our
understanding of the drivers remains limited. Thus, after decades of studies and regulation …

Despite elaborate regulation of agricultural pesticides, their occurrence in non-target areas
has been linked to adverse ecological effects on insects in several field investigations. Their …

The predictive power of the current risk-assessment framework for pesticides remains
uncertain. This is because any extrapolation towards landscape-level effects encounters …

We compiled data from eight field studies conducted between 1998 and 2010 in Europe,
Siberia, and Australia to derive thresholds for the effects of pesticides on macroinvertebrate …

There is a paucity of large-scale field investigations on the effects of organic toxicants on
stream macroinvertebrate community structure and ecosystem functions. We investigated a …

The agricultural use of pesticides leads to environmentally relevant pesticide concentrations
that cause adverse effects on stream ecosystems. These effects on invertebrate community …

Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace were among the first scientists to recognise the
importance of biodiversity for ecosystems. They suggested that a diverse mixture of crop …

The widespread contamination of ecosystems with plant protection products (pesticides in
this text) around the world is evident (Hoferkamp et al., 2010; Shunthirasingham et al., 2011; …

Pesticides constitute a major anthropogenic addition to natural communities. In aquatic
communities, a great majority of pesticide impacts are determined from single‐species …

The majority of central European streams are in poor ecological condition. Pesticide inputs
from terrestrial habitats present a key threat to sensitive insects in streams. Both …