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
peter.vonderohe@ufz.de
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.
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Further development of the SPEcies At Risk index
(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."
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
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2013 (6)
- Dulio, V., von der Ohe, P.C., (eds., 2013):
NORMAN prioritisation framework for emerging substances. NORMAN Association Network of reference laboratories and related organisations for monitoring and bio-monitoring of emerging environmental substances. Working Group on Prioritisation of Emerging Substances
NORMAN Association, Verneuil en Halatte, 70 pp. - Klaschka, U., von der Ohe, P.C., Bschorer, A., Krezmer, S., Sengl, M., Letzel, M., (2013):
Occurrences and potential risks of 16 fragrances in five German sewage treatment plants and their receiving waters
Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 20 (4), 2456 - 2471
full text (url) - Kühne, R., Ebert, R.-U., von der Ohe, P.C., Ulrich, N., Brack, W., Schüürmann, G., (2013):
Read-across prediction of the acute toxicity of organic compounds toward the water flea Daphnia magna
Mol. Inf. 32 (1), 108 - 120
full text (url) - Schäfer, R.B., Bundschuh, M., Focks, A., von der Ohe, P.C., (2013):
Letter to the Editor
Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 32 (4), 734 - 735
full text (url) - von der Ohe, P.C., Goedkoop, W., (2013):
Distinguishing the effects of habitat degradation and pesticide stress on benthic invertebrates using stressor-specific metrics
Sci. Total Environ. 444 , 480 - 490
full text (url) - Wetzel, M.A., Wahrendorf, D.-S., von der Ohe, P.C., (2013):
Sediment pollution in the Elbe estuary and its potential toxicity at different trophic levels
Sci. Total Environ. 449 , 199 - 207
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to index2012 (10)
- Brühl, C.A., Schäfer, R.B., Mittmann, F., Stahlschmidt, P., Bruns, E., Candolfi, M., Egeler, P., Hollert, H., Kaiser, D., Mohr, S., Ratte, T., Schaumann, G., Schlechtriem, C., Stock, F., Vervliet Scheebaum, M., von der Ohe, P.C., Weltje, L., Werner, I., (2012):
16th SETAC GLB (Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry German Language Branch) annual meeting held under the main theme "EcoTOXICOlogy and Environmental CHEMISTRY: crossing borders" from 18th to 20th September 2011 at Landau
Environmental Sciences Europe 24 , art. 39
full text (url) - de Deckere, E., Brack, W., Van Ballaer, B., von der Ohe, P.C., (2012):
Identifying key stressors in Danube, Elbe, Llobregat and Scheldt based on regular monitoring data
River Systems 20 (1-2), 87 - 99
full text (url) - Malaj, E., Grote, M., Schäfer, R.B., Brack, W., von der Ohe, P.C., (2012):
Physiological sensitivity of freshwater macroinvertebrates to heavy metals
Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 31 (8), 1754 - 1764
full text (url) - Schäfer, R.B., Bundschuh, M., Rouch, D.A., Szöcs, E., von der Ohe, P.C., Pettigrove, V., Schulz, R., Nugegoda, D., Kefford, B.J., (2012):
Effects of pesticide toxicity, salinity and other environmental variables on selected ecosystem functions in streams and the relevance for ecosystem services
Sci. Total Environ. 415 , 69 - 78
full text (url) - Schäfer, R.B., von der Ohe, P.C., Rasmussen, J., Kefford, B.J., Beketov, M., Schulz, R., Liess, M., (2012):
Thresholds for the effects of pesticides on invertebrate communities and leaf breakdown in stream ecosystems
Environ. Sci. Technol. 46 (9), 5134 - 5142
full text (url) - Semenzin, E., Zabeo, A., von der Ohe, P.C., Gottardo, S., Critto, A., Marcomini, A., (2012):
The role of reference conditions in water quality assessment: application of a fuzzy logic-based Decision Support System (DSS) in the Danube and Elbe River Basins
River Systems 20 (1-2), 23 - 40
full text (url) - Slobodnik, J., Mrafkova, L., Carere, M., Ferrara, F., Pennelli, B., Schüürmann, G., von der Ohe, P.C., (2012):
Identification of river basin specific pollutants and derivation of environmental quality standards: a case study in the Slovak Republic
Trac-Trends Anal. Chem. 41 , 133 - 154
full text (url) - von der Ohe, P.C., Schmitt-Jansen, M., Slobodnik, J., Brack, W., (2012):
Triclosan – the forgotten priority substance?
Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 19 (2), 585 - 591
full text (url) - Wetzel, M.A., von der Ohe, P.C., Manz, W., Koop, J.H.E., Wahrendorf, D.-S., (2012):
The ecological quality status of the Elbe estuary. A comparative approach on different benthic biotic indices applied to a highly modified estuary
Ecol. Indic. 19 , 118 - 129
full text (url) - Wolfram, G., Höss, S., Orendt, C., Schmitt, C., Adámek, Z., Bandow, N., Großschartner, M., Kukkonen, J.V.K., Leloup, V., López-Doval, J.C., Muñoz, I., Traunspurger, W., Tuikka, A., Van Liefferinge, C., von der Ohe, P.C., de Deckere, E., (2012):
Assessing the impact of chemical pollution on benthic invertebrates from three different European rivers using a weight-of-evidence approach
Sci. Total Environ. 438 (1), 498 - 509
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to index2011 (10)
- Carafa, R., Faggiano, L., Real, M., Munné, A., Ginebreda, A., Guasch, H., Flo, M., Tirapu, L., von der Ohe, P.C., (2011):
Water toxicity assessment and spatial pollution patterns identification in a Mediterranean River Basin District. Tools for water management and risk analysis
Sci. Total Environ. 409 (20), 4269 - 4279
full text (url) - de Deckere, E., De Cooman, W., Leloup, V., Meire, P., Schmitt, C., von der Ohe, P.C., (2011):
Development of sediment quality guidelines for freshwater ecosystems
J. Soils Sediments 11 (3), 504 - 517
full text (url) - Gottardo, S., Semenzin, E., Giove, S., Zabeo, A., Critto, A., de Zwart, D., Ginebreda, A., von der Ohe, P.C., Marcomini, A., (2011):
Integrated risk assessment for WFD ecological status classification applied to Llobregat river basin (Spain). Part II — Evaluation process applied to five environmental lines of evidence
Sci. Total Environ. 409 (22), 4681 - 4692
full text (url) - Guénard, G., von der Ohe, P.C., de Zwart, D., Legendre, P., Lek, S., (2011):
Using phylogenetic information to predict species tolerances to toxic chemicals
Ecol. Appl. 21 (8), 3178 - 3190
full text (url) - Höss, S., Claus, E., von der Ohe, P.C., Brinke, M., Güde, H., Heininger, P., Traunspurger, W., (2011):
Nematode species at risk - a metric to assess pollution in soft sediments of freshwaters
Environ. Int. 37 (5), 940 - 949
full text (url) - Schäfer, R.B., Pettigrove, V., Rose, G., Allinson, G., Wightwick, A., von der Ohe, P.C., Schimeta, J., Kühne, R., Kefford, B.J., (2011):
Effects of pesticides monitored with three sampling methods in 24 sites on macroinvertebrates and microorganisms
Environ. Sci. Technol. 45 (4), 1665 - 1672
full text (url) - Schäfer, R.B., von der Ohe, P.C., Kühne, R., Schüürmann, G., Liess, M., (2011):
Occurrence and toxicity of 331 organic pollutants in large rivers of North Germany over a decade (1994 to 2004)
Environ. Sci. Technol. 45 (14), 6167 - 6174
full text (url) - Schmitt-Jansen, M., von der Ohe, P.C., Franz, S., Rotter, S., Sabater, S., de Zwart, D., Segner, H., (2011):
Ecological relevance of key toxicants in aquatic systems
In: Brack, W., (ed.)
Effect-directed analysis of complex environmental contamination
Handbook of Environmental Chemistry Series 15
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 315 - 340
full text (url) - Tuikka, A., Schmitt, C., Höss, S., Bandow, N., von der Ohe, P.C., de Zwart, D., de Deckere, E., Streck, G., Mothes, S., van Hattum, B., Kocan, A., Brix, R., Brack, W., Barcelo, D., Sormunen, A.J., Kukkonen, J.V.K, (2011):
Toxicity assessment of sediments from three European river basins using a sediment contact test battery
Ecotox. Environ. Safe. 74 (1), 123 - 131
full text (url) - von der Ohe, P.C., Dulio, V., Slobodnik, J., de Deckere, E., Kühne, R., Ebert, R.U., Ginebreda, A., De Cooman, W., Schüürmann, G., Brack, W., (2011):
A new risk assessment approach for the prioritization of 500 classical and emerging organic microcontaminants as potential river basin specific pollutants under the European Water Framework Directive
Sci. Total Environ. 409 (11), 2064 - 2077
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to index2010 (4)
- Brack, W., Bakker, J.F., de Deckere, E., de Zwart, D., Hamers, T., Hein, M., Leonards, P., Lübcke-von Varel, U., Schmitt, C., Schmitt-Jansen, M., von der Ohe, P.C., (2010):
MODELKEY. European rivers under toxic stress
In: Settele, J., Penev, L., Georgiev, T., Grabaum, R., Grobelnik, V., Hammen, V., Klotz, S., Kotarac, M., Kühn, I., (eds.)
Atlas of biodiversity risk
Pensoft, Sofia, p. 116 - 118
full text (url) - Hein, M., Rotter, S., Schmitt-Jansen, M., von der Ohe, P.C., Brack, W., de Deckere, E., Schmitt, C., de Zwart, D., Posthuma, L., Foekema, E.M., Muñoz, I., Sabater, S., Segner, H., Semenzin, E., Markomini, A., van Gils, J., van Hattum, B., van Vliet, L.A., (2010):
MODELKEY. Key findings and recommendations for reaching the EU Water Framework Directive's quality objectives
UWSF-Z.Umweltchem.Ökotox. 22 (3), 217 - 228
full text (url) - 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
full text (url) - Wenger, M., Ondracková, M., Machala, M., Neca, J., Hyrsl, P., Simkova, A., Jurajda, P., von der Ohe, P.C., 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
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to index2009 (4)
- 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
full text (url) - 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
full text (url) - 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
full text (url) - 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
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to index2007 (3)
- Schriever, C.A., von der Ohe, P.C., Liess, M., (2007):
Estimating pesticide runoff in small streams
Chemosphere 68 (11), 2161 - 2171
full text (url) - 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
full text (url) - 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 (9), 970 - 978
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- 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. Res. 12 (5), 252 - 256
full text (url) - Liess, M., von der Ohe, P.C., (2005):
Analyzing effects of pesticides on invertebrate communities in streams
Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 24 (4), 954 - 965
full text (url) - von der Ohe, P.C., (2005):
Ecological risk assessment of organic pollutants with regard to their direct and indirect effects on stream-dwelling macroinvertebrates of small headwater streams
Dissertation, TU Braunschweig
PhD Dissertation 11/2005
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, 109 pp.
full text (url) - 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
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- 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
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