Edward A. D. Mitchell

TL;DR: Honey is used as reliable environmental sampler and an unprecedentedly sensitive method based on QuEChERS and UHPLC-MS/MS is developed for the simultaneous determination of the nine neonicotinoids and related molecules currently present on the market, finding that the five pesticides were stable over a period of several years at -20 °C, but that acetamiprid and thiacloprid partially degraded at room temperature.

TL;DR: The effects of decomposing pig cadavers on soil chemistry over a one-year period in a spruce-dominant forest are investigated and three categories of chemical markers that may have the potential to date the time since death are defined: early peak markers, late peak markers (LPM) and late decrease markers (LDM).

TL;DR: It is argued that soil biodiversity studies that ignore protists miss some potential mechanistic insight into the drivers of observed patterns, and called for truly integrated biodiversity assessments including protists, without which the soil food-web and processes cannot reliably be understood.

TL;DR: Topo-climatic variables were, on average, better predictors of protist diversity at the landscape scale than edaphic variables, yet predictive power varied among taxonomic groups.

TL;DR: In this article, high resolution multi-proxy studies on a sediment sequence from Lake Lautrey (Jura Mountains, eastern France) gave a palaeoenvironmental data base for the present study, thus, this sequence offered the opportunity to test the response of lacustrine testate amoebae to climate changes for the Lateglacial-Holocene transition.