Assessing the impact of two conventional wastewater treatment plants on small streams with effect-based methods.

Sixty percent of discrete surface water bodies in Europe do not meet the requirements for good ecological and chemical status and in Germany, the situation is even worse with over 90% of surface water bodies failing to meet the threshold. In addition to hydromorphological degradation, intensive land use and invasive species, chemical pollution is primarily considered to be responsible for the inadequate ecological status of the water bodies. As a quantitatively important source of micropollutants, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) represent an important entry path for chemical stressors.

20 years of bibliometric data illustrates a lack of concordance between journal impact factor and fungal species discovery in systematic mycology.

Journal impact factors were devised to qualify and compare university library holdings but are frequently repurposed for use in ranking applications, research papers, and even individual applicants in mycology and beyond. The widely held assumption that mycological studies published in journals with high impact factors add more to systematic mycology than studies published in journals without high impact factors nevertheless lacks evidential underpinning. The present study uses the species hypothesis system of the UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi and other eukaryotes to trace the publication history and impact factor of sequences uncovering new fungal species hypotheses.

Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling of unprotected -bromoanilines with benzyl, alkyl, aryl, alkenyl and heteroaromatic boronic esters.

A Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction was developed on unprotected -bromoanilines. This operationally simple reaction was developed for the diversification of glucocorticoid receptor modulators (GRMs), showed compatibility to various boronic esters featuring unique functionalities, and was demonstrated on a gram scale.

Cryptic species complex shows population-dependent, rather than lineage-dependent tolerance to a neonicotinoid.

Cryptic species are rarely considered in ecotoxicology, resulting in misleading outcomes when using a single morphospecies that encompasses multiple cryptic species. This oversight contributes to the lack of reproducibility in ecotoxicological experiments and promotes unreliable extrapolations. The important question of ecological differentiation and the sensitivity of cryptic species is rarely tackled, leaving a substantial knowledge gap regarding the vulnerability of individual cryptic species within species complexes.