Abstract The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is now well established as the key
management imperative in river basins across Europe. However, there remain significant …

Abstract The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessment scheme has been putting in
force the evaluation of freshwater ecosystems in Europe, including a new paradigm of …

EFSA's Panel on Plant Protection Products and their Residues (PPR) was tasked to revise
the Guidance Document (GD) on Aquatic Ecotoxicology under Council Directive …

The growing need to evaluate the quality of aquatic ecosystems led to the development of
numerous monitoring tools. Among them, the development of biomarker-based procedures …

We couple current findings of pesticides in surface and groundwater to the history of
pesticide usage, focusing on the potential contribution of legacy pesticides to the predicted …

How anthropogenic stressors affect biodiversity is a central question in a changing world.
Subterranean ecosystems and their biodiversity are particularly vulnerable to change, yet …

The anionic surfactant sodium lauryl ether sulphate (SLES) is the main component of most
commercial products used for soil conditioning in the excavation industry, in particular as …

Our ability to predict and assess how environmental changes such as pollution and climate
change affect components of the Earth's biome is of paramount importance. This need …

A major challenge in environmental risk assessment of pollutants is establishing a causal
relationship between field exposure and community effects that integrates both structural …

Omics studies are currently increasingly used in ecotoxicology to highlight the induction of
known or novel biomarkers when organisms are exposed to contaminants. Although it is …