Ecotoxicology

Special Issue

The Special Issue on “Plastic Contamination: Challenges and Solutions” focus on addressing all aspects of plastics.

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Final conference of PLAWES and Micro_Catch Balt

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1. Bayreuth Microplastics Symposium

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PhD-WinterSchool „Plastics in the Environment“

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SETAC Europe 30th Annual Meeting (Virtual Meeting)

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New Collaborative Research Centre on Microplastics

10 December 2018

The University of Bayreuth, partner institution in the joint research project "PLAWES", receives 10 million euros to establish a new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC). Its purpose is to investigate the biological effects of microplastics in the environment, including its migration and formation.

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Microplastics2018

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Workshop on cross-cutting topic 2 "Evaluation methods of possible effects of plastics in the environment (incl. toxicology)"

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PLAWES

Microplastic Contamination in the Weser- Wadden Sea – National Park Model System: an Ecosystem-Wide Approach

September 2017

April 2021

In PLAWES, the modelling system of the German national park Weser-Wadden Sea is the first large European river basin that is investigated in detail regarding its microplastic pollution to.

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Website

http://www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/PLAWES/en/

Project sheet

18_Projektblatt_PLAWES_ENG_2018.pdf

MikroPlaTas

Microplastics in Dams and Reservoirs: Sedimentation, Spread, Effects

January 2018

June 2021

The spread of microplastics in rivers shows that along a given waterway there are sources as well as sinks. Thus, dams and reservoirs constitute important but until now hardly investigated parts of a water system that serve as examples for risk vs. usefulness of sedimentation of microplastics.