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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
72
Citations
18359
World Ranking
1496
National Ranking
104

Biology and Biochemistry

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71
Citations
17914
World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Ralf Schulz is affiliated with the University of Koblenz and Landau in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of environmental science with a focus on several subfields, including ecology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, nature and landscape conservation, and insect science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as fish ecology and management studies, environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology, isotope analysis in ecology, pesticide and herbicide environmental studies, insect and pesticide research, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, and pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts.

Among their recent publications are the following notable works:

  • Applied pesticide toxicity shifts toward plants and invertebrates, even in GM crops (2021) published in Science
  • Water quality and ecological risks in European surface waters - Monitoring improves while water quality decreases (2021) published in Environment International
  • Neonicotinoid insecticides in global agricultural surface waters - Exposure, risks and regulatory challenges (2023) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Trends of Total Applied Pesticide Toxicity in German Agriculture (2022) published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Fungal-fungal and fungal-bacterial interactions in aquatic decomposer communities: bacteria promote fungal diversity (2021) published in Ecology

Frequent coauthors with whom Schulz has collaborated include:

  • Mirco Bundschuh (38 joint publications)
  • Jochen P. Zubrod (32 joint publications)
  • Eric Bollinger (19 joint publications)
  • Jakob Wolfram (17 joint publications)
  • Sebastian Stehle (15 joint publications)

Schulz's work has been published extensively in several scientific venues. The most common publication venues include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment (11 publications)
  • Environmental Pollution (6 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (6 publications)
  • Environmental Science & Technology (5 publications)
  • Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (5 publications)

Best Publications

  • Nanoparticles in the environment: where do we come from, where do we go to?

    Mirco Bundschuh;Mirco Bundschuh;Juliane Filser;Simon Lüderwald;Moira S. McKee

  • Agricultural insecticides threaten surface waters at the global scale.

    Sebastian Stehle;Ralf Schulz

  • Fungicides: An overlooked pesticide class?

    Jochen P. Zubrod;Mirco Bundschuh;Mirco Bundschuh;Gertie Arts;Carsten A. Brühl

  • Field studies on exposure, effects, and risk mitigation of aquatic nonpoint-source insecticide pollution: a review.

    Ralf Schulz

  • Antiviral Drugs in Wastewater and Surface Waters: A New Pharmaceutical Class of Environmental Relevance?

    Carsten Prasse;Michael P. Schlüsener;Ralf Schulz;Thomas A. Ternes

  • Assessment of insecticide contamination in runoff and stream water of small agricultural streams in the main soybean area of Argentina.

    S. Jergentz;Hernan Diego Mugni;Carlos Alberto Bonetto;R. Schulz

  • Thresholds for the Effects of Pesticides on Invertebrate Communities and Leaf Breakdown in Stream Ecosystems

    Ralf B. Schäfer;Peter Carsten von der Ohe;Jes Rasmussen;Ben J. Kefford

  • Applied pesticide toxicity shifts toward plants and invertebrates, even in GM crops.

    Ralf Schulz;Sascha Bub;Lara L. Petschick;Sebastian Stehle

  • DETERMINATION OF INSECTICIDE CONTAMINATION IN AGRICULTURAL HEADWATER STREAMS

    M. Liess;R. Schulz;M.H.-D. Liess;B. Rother

  • A comparison of predicted and measured levels of runoff-related pesticide concentrations in small lowland streams on a landscape level.

    Norbert Berenzen;Annette Lentzen-Godding;Michael Probst;Holger Schulz

  • Effectiveness of a constructed wetland for retention of nonpoint-source pesticide pollution in the Lourens River catchment, South Africa.

    Ralf Schulz;Sue K. C. Peall

  • Mitigation of chlorpyrifos runoff using constructed wetlands

    M.T Moore;R Schulz;C.M Cooper;S Smith

  • Linking insecticide contamination and population response in an agricultural stream

    Mathias Liess;Ralf Schulz

  • A field study of the effects of agriculturally derived insecticide input on stream macroinvertebrate dynamics

    Ralf Schulz;Mathias Liess

  • Biological surface coating and molting inhibition as mechanisms of TiO2 nanoparticle toxicity in Daphnia magna.

    André Dabrunz;Lars Duester;Carsten Prasse;Frank Seitz

  • The significance of entry routes as point and non-point sources of pesticides in small streams.

    Michael Neumann;Ralf Schulz;Karin Schäfer;Wolfgang Müller

  • Mitigation of agricultural nonpoint-source pesticide pollution in artificial wetland ecosystems

    Caroline Gregoire;David Elsaesser;David Huguenot;Jens Lange

  • Understanding the fate and biological effects of Ag- and TiO2-nanoparticles in the environment: The quest for advanced analytics and interdisciplinary concepts

    Gabriele E. Schaumann;Allan Philippe;Mirco Bundschuh;Mirco Bundschuh;George Metreveli

  • Rainfall-induced sediment and pesticide input from orchards into the Lourens River, Western Cape, South Africa: importance of a single event.

    Ralf Schulz

  • Effects of pesticide toxicity, salinity and other environmental variables on selected ecosystem functions in streams and the relevance for ecosystem services

    Ralf B. Schäfer;Mirco Bundschuh;Duncan A. Rouch;Eduard Szöcs

Frequent Co-Authors

Mirco Bundschuh
Mirco Bundschuh University of Koblenz and Landau
Matthias Liess
Matthias Liess Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Henner Hollert
Henner Hollert Goethe University Frankfurt
Gabriele E. Schaumann
Gabriele E. Schaumann Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Ralf B. Schäfer
Ralf B. Schäfer University of Kaiserslautern-Landau - RPTU
Carsten A. Brühl
Carsten A. Brühl University of Koblenz and Landau
Michael H. Neumann
Michael H. Neumann Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Hans-Jörg Vogel
Hans-Jörg Vogel Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Charles M. Cooper
Charles M. Cooper Agricultural Research Service
Thomas A. Ternes
Thomas A. Ternes Federal Institute of Hydrology

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