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Overview

Sebastian Höss is affiliated with the Institute for Biodiversity in Germany and has focused their research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Pollution, Plant Science, Oceanography, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Nematode management and characterization studies
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts

Sebastian Höss has published multiple papers, with notable recent works covering areas related to nematode toxicity, microplastic effects, and ecological indicators. Some of these publications include:

  • Surface-Related Toxicity of Polystyrene Beads to Nematodes and the Role of Food Availability (2020), Environmental Science & Technology
  • Species-specific effects of long-term microplastic exposure on the population growth of nematodes, with a focus on microplastic ingestion (2020), Ecological Indicators
  • Nematodes as bioindicators of polluted sediments using metabarcoding and microscopic taxonomy (2020), Environment International
  • Limited effects of pesticides on stream macroinvertebrates, biofilm nematodes, and algae in intensive agricultural landscapes in Sweden (2020), Water Research
  • Oxygen consumption rate of Caenorhabditis elegans as a high-throughput endpoint of toxicity testing using the Seahorse XFe96 Extracellular Flux Analyzer (2020), Scientific Reports

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Sebastian Höss include:

  • Walter Traunspurger (19 coauthored works)
  • Hendrik Fueser (5 coauthored works)
  • Janina Schenk (5 coauthored works)
  • Marie-Theres Rauchschwalbe (5 coauthored works)
  • Arne Haegerbaeumer (3 coauthored works)

Publication venues where Sebastian Höss has frequently contributed research papers include:

  • Ecological Indicators (4 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (2 publications)
  • Nematology (2 publications)
  • Environmental Science & Technology (1 publication)
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Effects of dissolved organic matter (DOM) on the bioconcentration of organic chemicals in aquatic organisms--a review.

    Markus Haitzer;Sebastian Höss;Sebastian Höss;Walter Traunspurger;Christian Steinberg

  • Ecotoxicological assessment of aquatic sediments with Caenorhabditis elegans (nematoda) — a method for testing liquid medium and whole‐sediment samples

    Walter Traunspurger;Markus Haitzer;Sebastian Höss;Stefanie Beier

  • Nematode species at risk--a metric to assess pollution in soft sediments of freshwaters.

    S. Höss;E. Claus;P. von der Ohe;M. Brinke

  • Variability of sediment-contact tests in freshwater sediments with low-level anthropogenic contamination--determination of toxicity thresholds.

    S. Höss;W. Ahlf;C. Fahnenstich;D. Gilberg

  • Toxicity assessment of sediments from three European river basins using a sediment contact test battery.

    A.I. Tuikka;C. Schmitt;S. Höss;N. Bandow

  • Nematode communities in contaminated river sediments.

    Peter Heininger;Sebastian Höss;Evelyn Claus;Jürgen Pelzer

  • Ingestion of microplastics by nematodes depends on feeding strategy and buccal cavity size

    Hendrik Fueser;Marie-Theres Mueller;Linette Weiss;Sebastian Höss

  • Surface-Related Toxicity of Polystyrene Beads to Nematodes and the Role of Food Availability

    Marie-Theres Mueller;Hendrik Fueser;Lam Ngoc Trac;Philipp Mayer

  • Assessing the toxicity of contaminated soils using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as test organism.

    S. Höss;S. Jänsch;T. Moser;T. Junker

  • Endocrine disruption in nematodes: effects and mechanisms

    Sebastian Höss;Lennart Weltje

  • Refractory dissolved organic matter can influence the reproduction of Caenorhabditis elegans (Nematoda)

    Sebastian Höss;Matthias Bergtold;Markus Haitzer;Walter Traunspurger

  • Relationship between concentration of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and the effect of DOM on the bioconcentration of benzo[a]pyrene

    Markus Haitzer;Markus Haitzer;Sebastian Höss;Sebastian Höss;Walter Traunspurger;Christian Steinberg

  • Toxicity of cadmium to Caenorhabditis elegans (Nematoda) in whole sediment and pore water--the ambiguous role of organic matter.

    Sebastian Höss;Thomas Henschel;Markus Haitzer;Walter Traunspurger

  • Experimental studies with nematodes in ecotoxicology: an overview.

    Arne Hägerbäumer;Sebastian Höss;Peter Heininger;Walter Traunspurger

  • Sediment contact tests as a tool for the assessment of sediment quality in German waters

    Ute Feiler;Sebastian Höss;Wolfgang Ahlf;Daniel Gilberg

  • Meiobenthic community patterns of oligotrophic and deep Lake Constance in relation to water depth and nutrients

    W. Traunspurger;S. Höss;A. Witthöft-Mühlmann;M. Wessels

  • Assessing effects of the pharmaceutical ivermectin on meiobenthic communities using freshwater microcosms

    Marvin Brinke;Sebastian Höss;Guido Fink;Thomas A. Ternes

  • Interlaboratory comparison of a standardized toxicity test using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (ISO 10872).

    Sebastian Höss;Wolfgang Ahlf;Matthias Bergtold;Elke Bluebaum-Gronau

  • Toxicity of ingested cadmium to the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

    S. Höss;K. Schlottmann;W. Traunspurger

  • Growth and fertility of Caenorhabditis elegans (nematoda) in unpolluted freshwater sediments: Response to particle size distribution and organic content

    Sebastian Höss;Markus Haitzer;Walter Traunspurger;Christian E.W. Steinberg

  • Effects of quantity, quality, and contact time of dissolved organic matter on bioconcentration of benzo[a]pyrene in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

    Markus Haitzer;Markus Haitzer;B. Kent Burnison;Sebastian Höss;Sebastian Höss;Walter Traunspurger

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter Traunspurger
Walter Traunspurger Bielefeld University
Poul Løgstrup Bjerg
Poul Løgstrup Bjerg Technical University of Denmark
Henner Hollert
Henner Hollert Goethe University Frankfurt
Stephan Pflugmacher
Stephan Pflugmacher University of Manitoba
Claudia Wiegand
Claudia Wiegand University of Rennes
Jussi V. K. Kukkonen
Jussi V. K. Kukkonen University of Eastern Finland
Christoph C. Tebbe
Christoph C. Tebbe Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut
Karl-Werner Schramm
Karl-Werner Schramm Technical University of Munich
Christian Steinberg
Christian Steinberg INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Günter Neumann
Günter Neumann University of Hohenheim

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