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Overview

Paul J. Van den Brink is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these fields, their work focuses on subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Ecology, Insect Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics of Paul J. Van den Brink's research include Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Insect and Pesticide Research, Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies, Plant and animal studies, Physiological and biochemical adaptations, and Water Quality and Pollution Assessment.

Their research outputs have been published frequently in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Chemosphere
  • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environmental Pollution

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Paul J. Van den Brink include:

  • Andreu Rico
  • Ivo Roessink
  • E.T.H.M. Peeters
  • Markus Hermann
  • Annika Mangold-Döring

Recent papers by Paul J. Van den Brink cover a range of topics related to multiple stressors, microplastic pollution, chemical impacts on aquatic ecosystems, and combined environmental effects. Selected publications include:

  • Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Distribution of microplastic and small macroplastic particles across four fish species and sediment in an African lake, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • (Eco)toxicological tests for assessing impacts of chemical stress to aquatic ecosystems: Facts, challenges, and future, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Combined effects of heatwaves and micropollutants on freshwater ecosystems: Towards an integrated assessment of extreme events in multiple stressors research, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • The NORMAN Association and the European Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC): let's cooperate!, 2020, Environmental Sciences Europe

Best Publications

  • Principal response curves: Analysis of time-dependent multivariate responses of biological community to stress

    Paul J. Van den Brink;Cajo J. F. Ter Braak

  • Insecticide species sensitivity distributions: importance of test species selection and relevance to aquatic ecosystems

    Lorraine Maltby;Naomi Blake;Theo C. M. Brock;Paul J. Van den Brink

  • Nanopesticides: guiding principles for regulatory evaluation of environmental risks.

    Rai S. Kookana;Alistair B. A. Boxall;Philip T. Reeves;Roman Ashauer

  • Use of veterinary medicines, feed additives and probiotics in four major internationally traded aquaculture species farmed in Asia

    Andreu Rico;Tran Minh Phu;Tran Minh Phu;Kriengkrai Satapornvanit;Jiang Min

  • 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

  • Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines.

    James A Orr;Rolf D Vinebrooke;Michelle C Jackson;Kristy J Kroeker

  • Future water quality monitoring--adapting tools to deal with mixtures of pollutants in water resource management.

    Rolf Altenburger;Selim Ait-Aissa;Philipp Antczak;Thomas Backhaus

  • Combined and interactive effects of global climate change and toxicants on populations and communities

    S. Jannicke Moe;Karel De Schamphelaere;William H. Clements;Mary T. Sorensen

  • Use of chemicals and biological products in Asian aquaculture and their potential environmental risks: a critical review

    Andreu Rico;Kriengkrai Satapornvanit;Mohammad M. Haque;Jiang Min

  • Merging validation and evaluation of ecological models to ‘evaludation’: A review of terminology and a practical approach

    Jacqueline Augusiak;Paul J. Van den Brink;Volker Grimm;Volker Grimm

  • Multivariate analysis of stress in experimental ecosystems by principal response curves and similarity analysis

    Paul J. Van den Brink;Cajo J.F. Ter Braak

  • Fungicide risk assessment for aquatic ecosystems: importance of interspecific variation, toxic mode of action, and exposure regime.

    Lorraine Maltby;Theo C M Brock;Paul J Van den Brink

  • THE NEONICOTINOID IMIDACLOPRID SHOWS HIGH CHRONIC TOXICITY TO MAYFLY NYMPHS

    Ivo Roessink;Lemessa B. Merga;Hans J. Zweers;Paul J. Van den Brink

  • 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

  • Threshold levels for effects of insecticides in freshwater ecosystems: a review

    René P A Van Wijngaarden;Theo C M Brock;Paul J Van den Brink

  • Effects of the insecticide dursban® 4E (active ingredient chlorpyrifos) in outdoor experimental ditches: II. Invertebrate community responses and recovery

    Paul J. van den Brink;René P. A. Van Wijngaarden;Wil G. H. Lucassen;Theo C. M. Brock

  • Effects of pesticides on soil invertebrates in laboratory studies: a review and analysis using species sensitivity distributions.

    Geoff K. Frampton;Stephan Jänsch;Janeck J. Scott-Fordsmand;Jörg Römbke

  • Impact of the fungicide carbendazim in freshwater microcosms. II. Zooplankton, primary producers and final conclusions.

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  • Implications of differences between temperate and tropical freshwater ecosystems for the ecological risk assessment of pesticides

    Michiel A. Daam;Paul J. Van den Brink

  • Impact of the fungicide carbendazim in freshwater microcosms. I. Water quality, breakdown of particulate organic matter and responses of macroinvertebrates.

    J. G. M. Cuppen;P. J. van den Brink;E. Camps;K. F. Uil

  • Comparison of tropical and temperate freshwater animal species' acute sensitivities to chemicals: Implications for deriving safe extrapolation factors: Tropical versus Temperate Species Sensitivity

    Kevin Wh Kwok;Kenneth My Leung;Gilbert Sg Lui;Vincent Kh Chu

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreu Rico
Andreu Rico University of Valencia
Theo C.M. Brock
Theo C.M. Brock Wageningen University & Research
Frederik De Laender
Frederik De Laender University of Namur
Lorraine Maltby
Lorraine Maltby University of Sheffield
Donald J. Baird
Donald J. Baird University of New Brunswick
Guang-Guo Ying
Guang-Guo Ying South China Normal University
Jörg Römbke
Jörg Römbke ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH
Volker Grimm
Volker Grimm Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Ralf B. Schäfer
Ralf B. Schäfer University of Kaiserslautern-Landau - RPTU
Roman Ashauer
Roman Ashauer University of York

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