The impacts of toxicants and climate
change on freshwater ecosystems

Recent publications

Journal articles

2011

  • Liess M., Beketov M.A., 2011. Traits and stress - keys to identify community effects of low levels of toxicants in test systems. Ecotoxicology, in press.
  • Beketov M.A., Speranza A., Liess M., 2011. Ultraviolet radiation increases sensitivity to pesticides – synergistic effects on population growth rate of Daphnia magna at low concentrations. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, in press.
  • Stampfli N.C., Knillmann S., Liess M., Beketov M.A., 2011. Environmental context determines community sensitivity of freshwater zooplankton to a pesticide. Aquatic Toxicology, 104: 116-120.

2010

  • Beketov M.A., Yurchenko Yu.A., Belevich O.E., Liess M., 2010. What environmental factors are important determinants of structure, species richness, and abundance of mosquito assemblages? Journal of Medical Entomology, 47(2): 129-139.
  • Schletterer M., Füreder L., Kuzovlev V.V., Beketov M.A., 2010. Testing the coherence of several macroinvertebrate indices and environmental factors in a large lowland river system, Ecological Indicators, in print.

2009

  • Beketov M.A., 2009. Rapoport effect is detected in a river system and based on nested organization. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 18(4): 498-506.
  • Beketov M.A., Foit K., Schäfer R.B., Schriever C.A., Sacchi A., Capri E., Biggs J., Wells C., Liess, M., 2009. SPEAR indicates pesticide effects in streams – comparative use of species- and family-level biomonitoring data. Environmental Pollution, 157(6): 1841-1848.
  • Beketov M.A., 2009. Cross-Eurasian and altitudinal distribution of lotic mayflies – Species with wider altitudinal ranges have narrower geographical distribution. Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology, 45(4): 209-218.

Conference presentations

2011

  • Beketov M.A., Liess M., 2011. Ecotoxicology and macroecology – Time for integration. Abstracts of SETAC Europe 21t Annual Meeting, 15 -19 May 2011, Milan, Italy. SETAC Europe. P 92.
  • Beketov M.A., Speranza A., Liess M., 2011. Ultraviolet radiation increases sensitivity to pesticides -  Synergistic effects on population growth rate of Daphnia magna at low concentrations. Abstracts of SETAC Europe 21t Annual Meeting, 15 -19 May 2011, Milan, Italy. SETAC Europe. P 252.
  • Liess M., Beketov M.A., 2011. Traits and stress - keys to identify community effects of low levels of toxicants in test systems. Abstracts of SETAC Europe 21st Annual Meeting, 15 -19 May 2011, Milan, Italy. SETAC Europe. P 92.
  • Beketov M.A., Schletterer M., Schäfer R.B., Liess M., 2011. Trait-based methods – New trend in environmental diagnoses and prognoses. International Conference on the Status and Future of the World's Large Rivers, 11 - 14 April 2011, Vienna, Austria. Conference Abstract Book. P. 239-240.

2010

  • Beketov M.A., Liess M., 2010. Beyond the concentration - mortality dependence: What can risk assessment learn from ecology? Abstracts of SETAC Europe 20th Annual Meeting, 23 - 27 May 2010, Seville, Spain. SETAC Europe. - in print.
  • Knillmann S., Stampfli N.C., Beketov M.A., Liess M., 2010. Effects of climate related factors combined with biotic interactions on the sensitivity of freshwater macroinvertebrate communities towards pesticides. Abstracts of SETAC Europe 20th Annual Meeting, 23 - 27 May 2010, Seville, Spain. SETAC Europe. - P.18.
  • Stampfli N.C., Knillmann S., Noskov Y.A., Beketov M.A., Liess M., 2010. Combined effects of pesticide exposure and water level changes on the freshwater macroinvertebrate communities in the context of climate change. Abstracts of SETAC Europe 20th Annual Meeting, 23 - 27 May 2010, Seville, Spain. SETAC Europe. - P.117.
  • Beketov M.A., 2010. Macroecological lessons from Siberian mayflies – The Rapoport effect and why species with wider altitudinal ranges have narrower geographical distribution? Aquatic Sciences: Global Changes from the Centre to the Edge. Abstract Book, Joint Meeting with ASLO & NABS, 6 - 11 June 2010, Santa Fe, NM, USA. P. 18.
  • Stampfli N.C., Knillmann S., Beketov M.A., Liess M., 2010. Does the environmental context influence the response of zooplankton communitites to pesticides? Proceedings of the 31st Congress of SIL, 15 -20 August 2010, Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Knillmann S., Stampfli N.C., Beketov M.A., Liess M., 2010. Effect and recovery of Daphnia sp. populations from pesticide stress depends on the competition strength. Proceedings of the 31st Congress of SIL, 15 -20 August 2010, Cape Town, South Africa.

2009

  • Belevich O.E., Yurchenko Yu.A., Noskov Yu.A., Boyarisheva E.A., Beketov M.A., Liess M., 2009. Response of microcosm benthic communities to esfenvalerate in conditions of steppe zone in the South of western Siberia. Abstracts of 10th Meeting of Hydrobiological Society RAS, 28 September - 2 October 2009, Vladivostok, Russia. P. 37.
  • Knillmann S., Stampfli N.C., Beketov M.A., Liess M., 2009. Effect of a pesticide on freshwater plankton communities in the context of climate change: 2. Influence of biotic interaction. Abstracts of SETAC GLB Annual Meeting, 5-7 October 2009, Munich, Germany. SETAC GLB. P. 182.
  • Stampfli N.C., Knillmann S., Beketov M.A., Liess M., 2009. Effect of a pesticide on freshwater plankton communities in the context of climate change: 1. Influence of solar insolation. Abstracts of SETAC GLB Annual Meeting, 5-7 October 2009, Munich, Germany. SETAC GLB. P. 181-182.
  • Beketov M.A., Liess M., 2009. SPEAR bioindicators – promising tool for freshwater bioassessment in Russia. Abstracts of 10th Meeting of Hydrobiological Society RAS, 28 September - 2 October 2009, Vladivostok, Russia. P. 466.
  • Beketov M.A., Liess M., 2009. How stressor-specific can be trait-based methods in risk assessment: SPEAR approach for bioassessment of surface waters. Abstracts of SETAC Europe 19th Annual Meeting, 31 May - 4 June 2009, Göteborg, Sweden. SETAC Europe. P. 79.
  • Beketov M.A., Liess M., 2009. SPEARorganic - An indicator for effects of organic toxicants on lotic invertebrate communities: Independence of confounding environmental factors over an extensive river continuum. Abstracts of SETAC Europe 19th Annual Meeting, 31 May - 4 June 2009, Göteborg, Sweden. SETAC Europe. P. 162.
  • Beketov M.A., Liess M., 2009. Climate- and region-independent bioindicators of organic toxicants in flowing waters - SPEAR approach. Abstracts of SETAC Europe 19th Annual Meeting, 31 May - 4 June 2009, Göteborg, Sweden. SETAC Europe. P. 206.