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Heiko L. Schoenfuss is affiliated with St. Cloud State University in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the field of Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Water Science and Technology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Reproductive Biology and Impacts on Aquatic Species, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, and Water Quality and Pollution Assessment.

Heiko L. Schoenfuss has published multiple recent papers, including:

  • Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Lower Volta River, Ghana, West Africa: The Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Urban Development Nexus (2021) in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • Biological consequences of agricultural and urban land-use along the Maumee River, a major tributary to the Laurentian Great Lakes watershed (2020) in Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Sucker Shapes, Skeletons, and Bioinspiration: How Hard and Soft Tissue Morphology Generates Adhesive Performance in Waterfall Climbing Goby Fishes (2022) in Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Sticking to it: testing passive pull-off forces in waterfall-climbing fishes across challenging substrates (2020) in Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Multigenerational effects of a complex urban contaminant mixture on the behavior of larval and adult fish in multiple fitness contexts (2021) in The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent collaborators in their research include Richard W. Blob, Satomi Kohno, Kelly Diamond, Richard L. Kiesling, and Stephanie L. Hummel.

Heiko L. Schoenfuss has contributed to a range of publication venues. Most notably, they have published extensively in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, with additional works appearing in Integrative and Comparative Biology, Journal of Experimental Biology, Journal of Anatomy, and Water.

Best Publications

  • Antidepressant pharmaceuticals in two U.S. effluent-impacted streams: occurrence and fate in water and sediment, and selective uptake in fish neural tissue.

    Melissa M. Schultz;Edward T. Furlong;Dana. W. Kolpin;Stephen L. Werner

  • Antidepressants at environmentally relevant concentrations affect predator avoidance behavior of larval fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas)

    Meghan M. Painter;Megan A. Buerkley;Matthew L. Julius;Alan M. Vajda

  • Selective uptake and biological consequences of environmentally relevant antidepressant pharmaceutical exposures on male fathead minnows.

    Melissa M. Schultz;Meghan M. Painter;Stephen E. Bartell;Amanda Logue

  • Critical review: Grand challenges in assessing the adverse effects of contaminants of emerging concern on aquatic food webs

    Elena Nilsen;Kelly L Smalling;Lutz Ahrens;Meritxell Gros;Meritxell Gros

  • Demasculinization of male fish by wastewater treatment plant effluent.

    Alan M. Vajda;Larry B. Barber;James L. Gray;Elena M. Lopez

  • Contaminants of emerging concern in urban stormwater: spatiotemporal patterns and removal by iron-enhanced sand filters (IESFs).

    David J. Fairbairn;Sarah M. Elliott;Richard L. Kiesling;Heiko L. Schoenfuss

  • Reproductive responses of male fathead minnows exposed to wastewater treatment plant effluent, effluent treated with XAD8 resin, and an environmentally relevant mixture of alkylphenol compounds

    Larry B. Barber;Kathy E. Lee;Deborah L. Swackhamer;Heiko L. Schoenfuss

  • Kinematics of waterfall climbing in Hawaiian freshwater fishes (Gobiidae): vertical propulsion at the aquatic-terrestrial interface

    Heiko L. Schoenfuss;Richard W. Blob

  • Anthropogenic tracers, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and endocrine disruption in Minnesota lakes

    Jeffrey H. Writer;Larry B. Barber;Greg K. Brown;Howard E. Taylor

  • Functional diversity in extreme environments: effects of locomotor style and substrate texture on the waterfall‐climbing performance of Hawaiian gobiid fishes

    R. W. Blob;R. Rai;M. L. Julius;H. L. Schoenfuss

  • Predator avoidance performance of larval fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) following short-term exposure to estrogen mixtures.

    Meghan R. McGee;Matthew L. Julius;Alan M. Vajda;David O. Norris

  • Comparing biological effects and potencies of estrone and 17β-estradiol in mature fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas.

    A.A. Dammann;N.W. Shappell;S.E. Bartell;S.E. Bartell;H.L. Schoenfuss

  • Comparative biological effects and potency of 17α- and 17β-estradiol in fathead minnows.

    N.W. Shappell;K.M. Hyndman;S.E. Bartell;H.L. Schoenfuss

  • Effects of triclosan and triclocarban, two ubiquitous environmental contaminants, on anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas)

    Melissa M. Schultz;Stephen E. Bartell;Stephen E. Bartell;Heiko L. Schoenfuss

  • Impairment of the reproductive potential of male fathead minnows by environmentally relevant exposures to 4-nonylphenolf.

    H.L. Schoenfuss;S.E. Bartell;T.B. Bistodeau;R.A. Cediel

  • Morphological Selection and the Evaluation of Potential Tradeoffs Between Escape from Predators and the Climbing of Waterfalls in the Hawaiian Stream Goby Sicyopterus stimpsoni

    Richard W. Blob;Sandy M. Kawano;Kristine N. Moody;William C. Bridges

  • Performance and scaling of a novel locomotor structure: adhesive capacity of climbing gobiid fishes

    Takashi Maie;Heiko L. Schoenfuss;Richard W. Blob

  • Ten-week exposure to treated sewage discharge has relatively minor, variable effects on reproductive behavior and sperm production in goldfish.

    Heiko L. Schoenfuss;James T. Levitt;Glen Van Der Kraak;Peter W. Sorensen

  • Morphological selection in an extreme flow environment: body shape and waterfall-climbing success in the Hawaiian stream fish Sicyopterus stimpsoni

    Richard W. Blob;William C. Bridges;Margaret B. Ptacek;Takashi Maie

  • Effects of biologically-active chemical mixtures on fish in a wastewater-impacted urban stream

    Larry B. Barber;Gregory K. Brown;Todd G. Nettesheim;Elizabeth W. Murphy

  • Exposure and effects of perfluoroalkyl compounds on tree swallows nesting at Lake Johanna in east central Minnesota, USA.

    Christine M. Custer;Thomas W. Custer;Heiko L. Schoenfuss;Beth H. Poganski

  • Complex mixtures, complex responses: Assessing pharmaceutical mixtures using field and laboratory approaches.

    Heiko L. Schoenfuss;Edward T. Furlong;Patrick J. Phillips;Tia-Marie Scott

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry B. Barber
Larry B. Barber United States Geological Survey
Edward T. Furlong
Edward T. Furlong United States Geological Survey
William A. Arnold
William A. Arnold University of Minnesota
Gerald T. Ankley
Gerald T. Ankley Environmental Protection Agency
Donald O. Rosenberry
Donald O. Rosenberry United States Geological Survey
Michael J. Blum
Michael J. Blum University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Christopher P. Higgins
Christopher P. Higgins Colorado School of Mines
Peter W. Sorensen
Peter W. Sorensen University of Minnesota
Dana W. Kolpin
Dana W. Kolpin United States Geological Survey
Meritxell Gros
Meritxell Gros Catalan Institute for Water Research

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