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Overview

Leo Posthuma is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in the subfields of health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, nature and landscape conservation, environmental chemistry, and ecology.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, fish ecology and management studies, toxic organic pollutants impact, pesticide and herbicide environmental studies, species distribution and climate change, and hydrology and watershed management studies.

Leo Posthuma has coauthored extensively with several researchers including Peter Fantke, Jaap Slootweg, Dick de Zwart, Michael Zwicky Hauschild, and Sebastian Birk.

Their research has been published in various venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • Environment International
  • Environmental Sciences Europe
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Recent papers include:

  • Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration (2020), published in Global Change Biology
  • A risk based assessment approach for chemical mixtures from wastewater treatment plant effluents (2022), published in Environment International
  • Chemical pollution imposes limitations to the ecological status of European surface waters (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • The NORMAN Association and the European Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC): let's cooperate! (2020), published in Environmental Sciences Europe

Best Publications

  • Species Sensitivity Distributions in Ecotoxicology

    Leo Posthuma;Glenn W. Suter;Theo P. Traas

  • Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems.

    Sebastian Birk;Daniel Chapman;Laurence Carvalho;Bryan M. Spears

  • Guidance on harmonised methodologies for human health, animal health and ecological risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals

    Simon John More;Vasileios Bampidis;Diane Benford

  • Complex mixture toxicity for single and multiple species: Proposed methodologies

    Dick de Zwart;Leo Posthuma

  • Heavy-metal adaptation in terrestrial invertebrates: a review of occurrence, genetics, physiology and ecological consequences

    Leo Posthuma;Nico M. Van Straalen

  • Towards the review of the European Union Water Framework Directive: Recommendations for more efficient assessment and management of chemical contamination in European surface water resources.

    Werner Brack;Werner Brack;Valeria Dulio;Marlene Ågerstrand;Ian Allan

  • Multiple stressors determine river ecological status at the European scale: Towards an integrated understanding of river status deterioration.

    Jan U Lemm;Markus Venohr;Lidija Globevnik;Kostas Stefanidis

  • Equilibrium partitioning of heavy metals in Dutch field soils. I. Relationship between metal partition coefficients and soil characteristics

    René P. T. Janssen;Willie J. G. M. Peijnenburg;Leo Posthuma;Marc A. G. T. Van Den Hoop

  • Statement on advancing the assessment of chemical mixtures and their risks for human health and the environment.

    Elina Drakvik;Elina Drakvik;Rolf Altenburger;Yasunobu Aoki;Thomas Backhaus

  • SPECIES SENSITIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR USE IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS FOR 12,386 CHEMICALS

    Leo Posthuma;Jos van Gils;Michiel C. Zijp;Dik van de Meent

  • A Conceptual Framework for Implementation of Bioavailability of Metals for Environmental Management Purposes

    W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg;L. Posthuma;H.J.P. Eijsackers;H.E. Allen

  • Effect-based methods are key. The European Collaborative Project SOLUTIONS recommends integrating effect-based methods for diagnosis and monitoring of water quality

    Werner Brack;Selim Ait Aissa;Thomas Backhaus;Valeria Dulio

  • The SOLUTIONS project: challenges and responses for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources management.

    Werner Brack;Rolf Altenburger;Gerrit Schüürmann;Martin Krauss

  • Relating environmental availability to bioavailability: soil-type-dependent metal accumulation in the oligochaete Eisenia andrei.

    W. J. G. M. Peijnenburg;R. Baerselman;A. C. De Groot;T. Jager

  • LCIA framework and cross-cutting issues guidance within the UNEP-SETAC Life Cycle Initiative

    Francesca Verones;Jane Bare;Cecile Bulle;Rolf Frischknecht

  • State of the art of contaminated site management in The Netherlands: policy framework and risk assessment tools.

    F.A. Swartjes;M. Rutgers;J.P.A. Lijzen;P.J.C.M. Janssen

  • Equilibrium partitioning of heavy metals in dutch field soils. II. Prediction of metal accumulation in earthworms

    René P. T. Janssen;Leo Posthuma;Rob Baerselman;Henri A. Den Hollander

  • Quantification of Metal Bioavailability for Lettuce ( Lactuca sativa L.) in Field Soils

    W. Peijnenburg;R. Baerselman;A. de Groot;T. Jager

  • A risk based assessment approach for chemical mixtures from wastewater treatment plant effluents.

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  • Prediction of Metal Bioavailability in Dutch Field Soils for the Oligochaete Enchytraeus crypticus

    W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg;L. Posthuma;P.G.P.C. Zweers;R. Baerselman

  • Adaptation to soil pollution by cadmium excretion in natural populations of Orchesella cincta (L.) (Collembola).

    L. Posthuma;R. F. Hogervorst;N. M. Van Straalen

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Brack
Werner Brack Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Rolf Altenburger
Rolf Altenburger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Dik van de Meent
Dik van de Meent Radboud University
Scott D. Dyer
Scott D. Dyer LeTourneau University
Mark A. J. Huijbregts
Mark A. J. Huijbregts Radboud University
John Munthe
John Munthe IVL - Swedish Environmental Research Institute
Thomas Backhaus
Thomas Backhaus University of Gothenburg
Willie J.G.M. Peijnenburg
Willie J.G.M. Peijnenburg Leiden University
Martina G. Vijver
Martina G. Vijver Leiden University
Michiel Rutgers
Michiel Rutgers Axpo (Switzerland)

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