Abstract ....................................................... VI
Zusammenfassung ............................................... VII
Abbreviations/Glossary ....................................... VIII
Chapter 1. Introduction, Methods, and Objectives ................ 1
Pesticide use and fate ....................................... 2
Running water ecosystems ..................................... 8
Monitoring of pesticide exposure and effects in running
waters ...................................................... 12
Methods and Objectives of this thesis ....................... 17
References Chapter 1 ........................................ 21
Chapter 2. Pesticide impact on aquatic invertebrates
identified with Chemcatcher® passive samplers and the
SPEARpesticides index ....................................... 35
Chapter 3. Pesticides from wastewater treatment plant
effluents affect invertebrate communities ................... 69
Chapter 4. Forested headwaters mitigate pesticide effects on
macroinvertebrate communities in streams: Mechanisms and
quantification ............................................. 103
Chapter 5. Discussion and Conclusions ......................... 131
Pesticide stress alters lotic macroinvertebrate
communities ................................................ 132
Future challenges .......................................... 136
Conclusions ................................................ 142
References Chapter 5 ....................................... 143
Appendix A Supplementary Material to Chapter 2 ............... 157
Appendix В Supplementary Material to chapter 3 ............... 169
Appendix С Supplementary Material to Chapter 4 ............... 187
Acknowledgments ............................................... 203
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