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Research for the Environment

Dr. Peter von der Ohe

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Dr. Peter von der Ohe
Research Scientist

Department of Effect-Directed Analysis
Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

phone +49 341 235 1581
fax +49 341 235 451581
E-MailE-Mailpeter.vonderohe@ufz.de

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Research interests

  • Risk assessment and prioritisation of organic pollutants.
  • Development of Provisional Predicted No-Effect Concentrations (P-PNEC).
  • Database analysis and linkage of chemical and biological monitoring data.
  • Further development of the SPEcies At Risk index Link externLink extern(SPEAR), considering species sensitivity and life history traits of species to assess the impact of organic pollution.
  • Positive effects of recovery potential of streams for the understanding of ecosystem functioning.
  • Toxic Unitsorganics for fish, algae and macroinvertebrates.
  • Structural Alerts to distinguish baseline and excess toxicity of organic compounds.

Curriculum Vitae

since - 02/2010

Sub-project leader of the DFG Project "Principles of recolonization in rivers: Dispersal and establishment of benthic invertebrate communities", Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

2/2005 - 01/2010

Database manager of the Integrated Project MODELKEY and WP4 coordination in the Coordination Action RISKBASE, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ

06/2001 - 01/2005

PhD student at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Leipzig. Thesis topic: "Ecological Risk Assessment of Organic Pollutants with Regard to their Direct and Indirect Effects on Stream Dwelling Macroinvertebrates of Small Headwater Streams."

Link internLink internDissertation 11/2005 Peter von der Ohe

5/2000 - 5/2001

Diploma thesis at the Department of Zoology, Research Group Ecotoxicology (TU Braunschweig). Thesis topic: "Ecological Characterisation of Invertebrates as an Indicator for the pesticide pollution of small streams".

10/1995 - 04/2000

Study of biology at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Main subjects: Ecology, Zoology, Botany

Publications

  • Schulze, T., Weiss, S., Schymanski, E., von der Ohe, P. C., Schmitt-Jansen, M., Altenburger, R., Streck, G., Brack, W. (2010):
    Identification of a phytotoxic photo-transformation product of diclofenac using effect-directed analysis
    Environ. Pollut. 158 (5), 1461-1466
    Link externLink externhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2009.12.032
  • Wenger, M., Ondračková, M., von der Ohe P., Machala, M., Neča, J., Hyrsl, P., Jurajda, P., Segner, H. (2010):
    Assessing relationships between chemical exposure, parasite infection, fish health, and fish ecological status: A case study using chub (Leuciscus cephalus) in the Bílina River, Czech Republic
    Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 29 (2), 453-466
    Link externLink externhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/etc.57
  • Brack, W., Apitz, S. E., Borchardt, D., Brils, J., Cardoso, A. C., Foekema, E. M., van Gils, J., Jansen, S., Harris, B., Hein, M., Heise, S., Hellsten, S., de Maagd, P. G. J., Müller, D., Panov, V. E., Posthuma, L., Quevauviller, P., Verdonschot, P. F. M., von der Ohe, P. C. (2009):
    Towards a holistic and risk-based management of European river basins
    Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 5 (1), 5-10
    Link externLink externhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1897/ieam_2008-024.1
  • Brack, W., Posthuma, L., Hein, M., von der Ohe, P. C. (2009):
    European river basins at risk
    Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 5 (1), 2-4
    Link externLink externhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1897/1551-3793-5.1.2
  • de Zwart, D., Posthuma, L., Gevrey, M., von der Ohe, P. C., de Deckere, E. (2009):
    Diagnosis of ecosystem impairment in a multiple stress context - how to formulate effective river basin management plans
    Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 5 (1), 38-49
    Link externLink externhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1897/ieam_2008-030.1
  • von der Ohe, P. C., de Deckere, E., Prüß, A., Muñoz, I., Wolfram, G., Villagrasa, M., Ginebreda, A., Hein, M., Brack, W. (2009):
    Towards an integrated risk assessment of the ecological and chemical status of European river basins
    Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 5 (1), 50-61
    Link externLink externhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1897/ieam_2008-043.1
  • von der Ohe, P. C., Prüß, A., Schäfer, R. B., Liess, M., de Deckere, E., Brack, W. (2007):
    Water quality indices across Europe - a comparison of the good ecological status of five river basins
    J. Environ. Monit. 9, 970-978
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  • von der Ohe, P. C., Kühne, R., Ebert, R. U., Schüürmann, G. (2007):
    Comment on "Discriminating toxicant classes by mode of action: 3. Substructure indicators" (M. Nendza and M. Müller, SAR QSAR Environ. Res. 18 155 (2007))
    SAR QSAR Environ.Res. 18 (7-8), 621-624
    Link externLink externhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10629360701698571
  • Schriever, C. A., von der Ohe, P. C., Liess, M. (2007):
    Estimating pesticide runoff in small streams
    Chemosphere 68 (11), 2161-2171
    Link externLink externhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.01.086
  • Brack, W., Bakker, J., de Deckere, E., Deerenberg, C., van Gils, J., Hein, M., Jurajda, P., Kooijman, B., Lamoree, M., Lek, S., López de Alda, M. J., Marcomini, A., Munoz, I., Rattei, S., Segner, H., Thomas, K., von der Ohe, P. C., Westrich, B., de Zwart, D., Schmitt-Jansen, M. (2005):
    MODELKEY. Models for assessing and forecasting the impact of environmental key pollutants on freshwater and marine ecosystems and biodiversity
    Environ. Sci. Pollut. R. 12 (5), 252-256
    Link externLink externhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1065/espr2005.08.286
  • Liess, M., von der Ohe, P. C. (2005):
    Analyzing effects of pesticides on invertebrate communities in streams
    Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 24 (4), 954-965
    Link externLink externhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1897/03-652.1
  • von der Ohe, P. C., Kühne, R., Ebert, R. U., Altenburger, R., Liess, M., Schüürmann, G. (2005):
    Structural alerts - a new classification model to discriminate excess toxicity from narcotic effect levels of organic compounds in the acute daphnid assay
    Chem. Res. Toxicol. 18 (3), 536-555
    Link externLink externhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1021/tx0497954
  • UFZ-Dissertation 11/2005, von der Ohe, P. C.
    Link internLink internhttp://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=5903
  • von der Ohe, P. C., Liess, M. (2004):
    Relative sensitivity distribution of aquatic invertebrates to organic and metal compounds
    Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 23 (1), 150-156
    Link externLink externhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1897/02-577