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Francesco Pomati

Group Leader, Aquatic Ecology, Eawag
Verified email at eawag.ch
Cited by 7203

Pharmaceuticals in the environment in Italy: causes, occurrence, effects and control

…, G Reitano, R Bagnati, C Chiabrando, F Pomati… - … Science and Pollution …, 2006 - Springer
… Erythromycin inhibitory effect on Lemna was unexpected, and this eukaryotic organism was
the most sensitive ever tested against ibuprofen to date (Pomati et al. 2004a). Exposure to …

Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes

…, ER Nodine, P Nõges, VP Patil, F Pomati… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In many regions across the globe, extreme weather events such as storms have increased
in frequency, intensity, and duration due to climate change. Ecological theory predicts that …

Reintroducing environmental change drivers in biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research

…, U Hommen, L Maltby, CJ Meliàn, F Pomati… - Trends in ecology & …, 2016 - cell.com
For the past 20 years, research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (B-EF) has only
implicitly considered the underlying role of environmental change. We illustrate that explicitly …

Removal of pharmaceuticals in sewage treatment plants in Italy

…, R Bagnati, R Fanelli, F Pomati… - … science & technology, 2006 - ACS Publications
A listing of “priority pharmaceuticals” for human use in Italy resulted in the selection of 26
pharmaceuticals, belonging to 11 therapeutic classes. They were analyzed by liquid …

Effects of a complex mixture of therapeutic drugs at environmental levels on human embryonic cells

F Pomati, S Castiglioni, E Zuccato… - … science & technology, 2006 - ACS Publications
The potential risk associated with the presence of low levels of pharmaceuticals in aquatic
environments is currently under debate. In this study we investigated the effects of 13 drugs …

Biosynthetic intermediate analysis and functional homology reveal a saxitoxin gene cluster in cyanobacteria

…, TK Mihali, YJ Jeon, R Pickford, F Pomati… - Applied and …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
Saxitoxin (STX) and its analogues cause the paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) syndrome,
which afflicts human health and impacts coastal shellfish economies worldwide. PSP toxins …

Effects of erythromycin, tetracycline and ibuprofen on the growth of Synechocystis sp. and Lemna minor

F Pomati, AG Netting, D Calamari, BA Neilan - Aquatic Toxicology, 2004 - Elsevier
Pharmaceutically active substances have recently been recognised as an emerging
environmental problem. Human and veterinarian therapeutic agents can contaminate aquatic …

Effects and interactions in an environmentally relevant mixture of pharmaceuticals

F Pomati, C Orlandi, M Clerici, F Luciani… - Toxicological …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
With the goal of assessing the environmental risk of pharmaceuticals, we have previously
observed that a mixture of 13 different drugs at environmentally relevant concentrations had …

[HTML][HTML] Disruption of ecological networks in lakes by climate change and nutrient fluctuations

…, PDF Isles, G Sugihara, C Berger, F Pomati - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
… c–f, S-map models’ inferred interactions between average water-column phosphate and …
f, Standard deviation of predicted connectance, estimated over 100 model predictions using …

Homogenization of lake cyanobacterial communities over a century of climate change and eutrophication

…, I Domaizon, N Dubois, D Bouffard, F Pomati - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Human impacts on biodiversity are well recognized, but uncertainties remain regarding
patterns of diversity change at different spatial and temporal scales. Changes in microbial …