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Research for the Environment

Dr. Peter von der Ohe

Contact

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 1785
E-MailE-Mailpeter.vonderohe@ufz.de

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Research interests

  • Risk assessment of organic pollutants.
  • 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 2/2005

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

  • 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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  • 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