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Effects of climate change and emerging contaminants on aquatic insects

The presenation will give an overview of the study aimed at characterizing individual and combined stressor effects such as pollution with pharmaceuticals (PhACs) and endocrine disruptors (EDCs) and increased water temperature on first level consumers in freshwaters. We conducted the microcosm experiment with a simplified freshwater food web containing moss and a shredding caddisfly larvae of Micropterna nycterobia (Trichoptera). Our results show that negative effects of these stressors cross the ecosystem interface and reduce biomass and resource quality for both, aquatic and terrestrial food webs.

Trichoptera ; Emerging contaminants ; Climate change

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