ECT at the International Colloquium on Soil Zoology and the International Symposium on Enchytraeidae

Talks at the International Colloquium on Soil Zoology (ICSZ):

Stephan Jänsch, Jörg Römbke, Hubert Höfer, Franz Horak, Martina Roß-Nickoll, David Russell, Andreas Toschki: Earthworms in permanent soil monitoring sites – state of knowledge, database and concept for the improvement of a soil biodiversity assessment within the German National Strategy on Biodiversity

Hubert Höfer, Andreas Toschki, Franz Horak, David Russell, Martina Roß-Nickoll, Jörg Römbke: Oribatid mites in permanent soil monitoring sites – state of knowledge, database and concept for the improvement of a soil biodiversity assessment within the German National Strategy on Biodiversity

Cintia Niva, Rüdiger Schmelz, George Brown: Establishing a native enchytraeid species for soil‐ecotoxicological tests in Brazil

Olugbenga Owojori, Karolina Waszak, Jörg Römbke: Development of an avoidance test for the predatory mite Hypoaspis aculeifer as a short screening test for the risk assessment of contaminants in soil

Posters at the ICSZ:

Rüdiger Schmelz, Rut Collado, David Porco: Barcoding ‘potworms’? Towards a molecular identification of species in Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta)

David Russell, Jörn Vorwald, Andreas Franzke, Hubert Höfer, Franz Horak,  Stephan Lesch, Sebastian Rick,  Jörg Römbke, Rüdiger Schmelz, Willi Xylander: The Edaphobase GBIF project of Germany – a new online soil organism data warehouse

Andreas Gerlach, David Russell, Jörg Römbke, Barbara Jäschke, Wolfgang Brüggemann: Decomposition activity on introduced Mediterranean leaf litter in Germany

Tiago Natal-da-Luz, Andressa Buch, Gerardo Ojeda, Jörg Römbke, Jose Paulo Sousa: Strategy to evaluate the effect of chemicals and climate changes on ecosystem services provisioning

Silja Frankenbach, Adam Scheffczyk, Stephan Jänsch, Jörg Römbke: The duration of the standard earthworm avoidance test: are 48 h necessary?

Adam Scheffczyk, Silja Frankenbach, Stephan Jänsch, Jörg Römbke: Comparison of the effects of zinc nitrate and tributyltin‐oxide on the reproduction and avoidance behavior of the earthworm Eisenia andrei in laboratory tests using ten soils

Sirine Bouguerra, Olfa Hentati, Catarina Marques, Jose Paulo Sousa, I.V. Nogueira, Nelson Gomes, Sonia Mendo, Fernando Goncalves, Mohamed Ksibi, Jörg Römbke, Abdelmajid Haddioui, Ruth Pereira: The impact of contamination with phophogypsum on the structural  and  functional  diversity  of  the  soil  microbial community (Sfax, Tunisia)

Jorge Nuno Pinheiro,  Catarina Marques, Gloria Pinto, A. Mestiri, Sonia Mendo, Newton Gomes, Fernando Goncalves, Teresa Rocha-Santos,  Armando da Coste Duarte, Jörg Römbke, Jose Paulo Sousa,  Mohamed Ksibi,  Abdelmajid Haddioui, Ruth Pereira: Selection of arboreous species for the phytoremediation of metal contaminated soils: Fraxinus angustifolia

Talks at the International Symposium on Enchytraeidae (ISE):

Cornelia Bandow, Anja Coors, Pascale Lorenz, Jörg Römbke, Jörg Oehlmann: Combined effects of soil moisture and an insecticide on soil organisms – A study with Terrestrial Model Ecosystems

Jörg Römbke, Stephan Jänsch, Hubert Höfer, Franz Horak, Martina Roß-Nickoll, David Russell, Andreas Toschki: Enchytraeidae in permanent soil monitoring sites – state of knowledge, database and concept for the improvement of a soil biodiversity assessment within the German National Strategy on Biodiversity

Posters at the ISE:

Safoura Madani, Anja Coors, Abdelmajid Haddioui, Mohamed Ksibi, Ruth Pereira, José Paulo Sousa, Jörg Römbke: Effects of contaminated soil from North Africa on enchytraeids and predatory mites in standard laboratory tests. I. The case of the former iron mine Ait Amar (Morocco)

Olfa Hentati, Thomas Moser, Jörg Römbke: Impact evaluation of phosphogypsum amendment on soil habitat function of invertebrates

Rüdiger Schmelz, Rut Collado: ‘Cejkaian tubules’ – intraepithelial canals in the posterior midgut of some terrestrial species of Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta)