Posters and publications​​

Find our posters and publications from various conferences and download the PDF file here. In case of any questions feel free to reach out to us and get in touch. 

Overview

Posters

SETAC Europe 34rd Annual Meeting, 05.05. – 09.05.2024, Seville (Spain)

GPS Tracking to Estimate Exposure of Birds and Mammals to Plant Protection Products for Risk Assessments

Energy Content, Moisture Content and Energy Assimilation Efficiency by Birds and Mammals of Oil-containing Seeds

A Proposal on How to Consider ‚Vulnerable Species‘ in Bird Focal Species Selection

The Natural Variability of Honey Bee Colonies – How to Meet the Requirements of the New EFSA Bee Guidance

Health Status of Animals Tagged in PT Studies: the Importance for Regulatory Acceptance

Key Outcomes of a Virtual Workshop on Avian Higher Tier Studies under the new EFSA Birds and Mammals Guidance Document

Can Fish Toxicity Data reliably Predict Toxicity to Aquatic Stages of Amphibia – Re-evaluation of a Dataset by Formulation

Think twice before you chose your study site

SETAC Europe 33rd Annual Meeting, 30.04. – 04.05.2023, Dublin (Ireland)

Risk assessment for amphibia in the EU

Aquatic risk assessment for non-standard chemicals with a physical mode of action

AT THE RIGHT TIME AT THE RIGHT PLACE:
considerations for focal species field studies

THE HARVEST MOUSE AS FOCAL SPECIES IN THE RISK ASSESSMENT

THE NEW BEE GUIDANCE DRAFT

Risk assessment for amphibia in the EU

Aquatic risk assessment for non-standard chemicals with a physical mode of action

AT THE RIGHT TIME AT THE RIGHT PLACE:
considerations for focal species field studies

THE HARVEST MOUSE AS FOCAL SPECIES IN THE RISK ASSESSMENT

THE NEW BEE GUIDANCE DRAFT

HOW TO DEMONSTRATE REPRESENTATIVENESS OF FIELD STUDIES USING GIS

Long-term exposure in semi-field studies of the Large Earth bumblebee

Improved test design for the evaluation of semifield studies with bumblebees

HOW TO DEMONSTRATE REPRESENTATIVENESS OF FIELD STUDIES USING GIS

Long-term exposure in semi-field studies of the Large Earth bumblebee

Improved test design for the evaluation of semifield studies with bumblebees

SETAC Europe 32th Annual Meeting, 15. – 19.05.2022, Copenhagen (Denmark)

Higher tier field effect studies in
practice

Grassland fields
as surrogate crop for field
effect studies

Possibilities and limitations for the bridging of focal species

Reducing exposure: Comparison of two application techniques

How to jump pitfalls in the statistical analysis

Higher tier field effect studies in practice

Grassland fields as surrogate crop for field effect studies

Possibilities and limitations for the bridging of focal species

Reducing exposure: Comparison of two application techniques

How to jump pitfalls in the statistical analysis

The new draft guidance for birds and mammals

Methods for tier 3 bird & mammal field studies

The new draft guidance for birds and mammals

Methods for tier 3 bird & mammal field studies

SETAC Europe 31th Annual Meeting, 03. – 06.05.2021, Virtual Conference

Spatial use of an agrarian landscape by linnets

Focal species aerial survey in ecotox field studies

More treatment levels
do increase robustness ?

Spatial use of an agrarian landscape by linnets

Focal species aerial survey in ecotox field studies

More treatment levels
do increase robustness ?

SETAC Europe 30th Annual Meeting, 03. – 07.05.2020, Dublin (Ireland)

Bat poster

Focal species for pesticide RA

Food preferences of wood mice

Long-term effects on Common vole

New methods for lagomorph field studies

Bat poster

Focal species for pesticide RA

Food preferences of wood mice

Long-term effects on Common vole

New methods for lagomorph field studies

The use of video recording​

Risk assessment for NTTPs​

The use of video recording​

Risk assessment for NTTPs​

SETAC Europe 29th Annual Meeting, 26. – 30.05.2019, Helsinki (Finland)

Nest monitoring standardisation designs​

MDD vole​

Long term PT approach

Guttation as an exposure route

Bird home range variation​

Nest monitoring standardisation designs​

MDD vole​

Long term PT approach

Guttation as an exposure route

Bird home range variation​

Rabbit field effects UK

Birds mammals field studies​

Nest monitoring

Rabbit field effects UK

Birds mammals field studies​

Nest monitoring

SETAC Europe 28th Annual Meeting, 13. – 17.05.2018, Rome (Italy)

Optimising design and analysis of acute effect field studies​

Field-effect studies as a suitable method​

NTTPs – vegetative vs. reproductive endpoints ​

Optimising design and analysis of acute effect field studies​

Field-effect studies as a suitable method​

NTTPs – vegetative vs. reproductive endpoints ​

The Chlorpyriphos Projects

Dittrich et al A holistic program of intensive field monitoring for birds & mammals SETAC 2013

Norman et al Bird Community Monitoring in Chlorpyrifos-treated Citrus 2012

Norman et al Use of chlorpyrifos in apple orchards in UK 2013

Foudoulakis et al Why are mammalian focal species unaffected by chlorpyrifos applications SETAC 2016

Giessing et al Algerian mouse populations in chlorpyrifos-treated citrus orchards in Spain SETAC 2012

Giessing et al Population analysis of the insectivorous Sardinian warbler in chlorpyrifos treated citrus orchards SETAC 2012

Dittrich et al Dynamics in spatial use of orchards by birds IOC 2014

Dittrich et al Dynamics Bird Community Orchards EOU 2017

Giessing et al Radio tracking of birds versatility to assess effects and spatial aspects SETAC 2015

Dittrich et al Bird community monitoring in chlorpyrifos treated wheat fields in UK SETAC 2015

Dittrich R, Giessing B, Benito M Maria, Russ A, Wolf C, Foudoulakis M, Norman S (2019): Multiyear Monitoring of Bird Communities in Chlorpyrifos-Treated Orchards in Spain and the United Kingdom: Spatial and Temporal Trends in Species Composition, Abundance, and Site Fidelity, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Vol. 38, No. 3, January 2019, Pages 616-629

Garrido et al Diversity and abundance of pollinators in chlorpyrifos treated cider apple orchards in UK SETAC 2015

Leopold et al Field monitoring of soil mesofauna in chlorpyrifos treated and organic cider-apple orchards SETAC 2015

tier3 experiences with the birds & mammals guidance document

the tier3-team of scientists “living” this document at daily work has collected experiences, thoughts and ideas about the current process of refined birds & mammals risk assessment and field studies and came up with suggestions for potential revisions and improvements:

Wolf C, Benito MM, Dittrich R, Fuelling O, Giessing B, Hotopp I, Persigehl M, Rossbach A, Russ A (2018): Background Information for the Revision of the Guidance Document Risk Assessment for Birds and Mammals – Based on experiences of daily practical work on higher tier risk assessments and field studies

Selected publications

Hotopp I, Russ A, Alkassab A, Pistorius J, Prados EA, Persigehl M (2024). Using equivalence tests in higher tier studies of honey bees under the revised EFSA Bee Guidance – How? Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. online first.

Román J, Rodríguez C, García-Rodríguez A, Diez-Virto I, Gutiérrez-Expósito C, Jubete F, Paniw M, Clavero M, Revilla E, D’Amico M (2024). Beyond crippling bias: Carcass-location bias in roadkill studies. Conservation Science and Practice, doi/10.1111/csp2.13103

Hotopp I, Walther B, Fuelling O, Reil D, Hesse C, Below DA, Imholt C, Jacob J (2022). Habitat and Season Effects on Small Mammal Bycatch in Live Trapping. Biology 11(12):1806.

Licht, B. (2021) Wildkaninchen-Projekt auf Golfanlagen – Zwischenstand tier3 solutions Studie. Golf Manager – die Fachzeitschrift für Führungskräfte und Betreiber. Ausgabe 6/21. Köllen Druck und Verlag GmbH. p. 78-80

Christl H, Morilla J, Hoen T, Zumkier U (2019) Comparative assessment of the intrinsic sensitivity of crop species and wild plant species to plant protection products and their active substances and potential implications for the risk assessment: a literature review. Integr Environ Assess Manag. 19(2): 176-189

Christl H (2018): NTTPs – vegetative vs. reproductive endpoints – Is the potential increase in protectivity an indication of sensitivity or of relevance? (modelled vs. real data). Poster presentation, SETAC Annual Meeting Rome

Virtual workshop - Focal species derivation for birds

Meeting minutes from the virtual Workshop Bird Focal Species

Slides from Presentation “Identification of study areas for bird focal species studies”

Slides from Presentation “Focal species field studies – Factors to consider”

Slides from Presentation “Bird Focal Species Selection – An approach to refine the vulnerability in bird focal species selection ”

Results from Questionnaire