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Pesticide Effects on Stream Ecosystems

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Pesticides are currently applied on a large scale in agricultural crops, but also in urban areas, private gardens, and households [1–6].

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  1. Department of System-Ecotoxicology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Saskia Knillmann & Matthias Liess

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Correspondence to Saskia Knillmann .

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  1. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Matthias Schröter

  2. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Aletta Bonn

  3. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Stefan Klotz

  4. Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Ralf Seppelt

  5. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Cornelia Baessler

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Knillmann, S., Liess, M. (2019). Pesticide Effects on Stream Ecosystems. In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C. (eds) Atlas of Ecosystem Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96229-0_33

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