Pesticides released to the environment can indirectly affect target and non-target species in
ways that are often contrary to their intended use. Such indirect effects are mediated through …

An alarming number of contaminants of emerging concern, including active residues from
pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), are increasingly being introduced in …

Emerging contaminants (ECs) are chemicals of a synthetic origin or deriving from a natural
source that has recently been discovered and for which environmental or public health risks …

In this article we focus on the vital ecological services provided by insects. We restrict our
focus to services provided by “wild” insects; we do not include services from domesticated or …

Medicines have an important role in the treatment and prevention of disease in both humans
and animals. But it is because of the very nature of medicines that they may also have …

The avermectins, milbemycins and spinosyns are collectively referred to as macrocyclic
lactones (MLs) which comprise several classes of chemicals derived from cultures of soil …

While manure has been used as nutrient-rich fertilizer for centuries, anaerobic digestion
(AD) of manure has only been recognized recently as a promising renewable energy source …

In spite of their relatively small size as a group of insects, dung beetles have attracted an
inordinate amount of scientific interest over the years, starting with the work of the French …

Invertebrate focal taxa that can act as information surrogates for broader patterns of
biodiversity are of increasing interest to conservation practitioners. Scarabaeine dung …

We applied a screening-level phytotoxicity assay to evaluate the effects of 10 antibiotics (at
concentrations ranging from 1 to 10,000 μg/L) on germination and early plant growth using …