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Ralf Schulz

Professor for Environmental Sciences, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Campus Landau
Verified email at rptu.de
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Causes of the 2003 major grid blackouts in North America and Europe, and recommended means to improve system dynamic performance

…, J Sanchez-Gasca, R Schulz… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On August 14, 2003, a cascading outage of transmission and generation facilities in the North
American Eastern Interconnection resulted in a blackout of most of New York state as well …

Applied pesticide toxicity shifts toward plants and invertebrates, even in GM crops

R Schulz, S Bub, LL Petschick, S Stehle, J Wolfram - Science, 2021 - science.org
Pesticide impacts are usually discussed in the context of applied amounts while disregarding
the large but environmentally relevant variations in substance-specific toxicity. Here, we …

Thresholds for the effects of pesticides on invertebrate communities and leaf breakdown in stream ecosystems

…, BJ Kefford, MA Beketov, R Schulz… - … science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
We compiled data from eight field studies conducted between 1998 and 2010 in Europe,
Siberia, and Australia to derive thresholds for the effects of pesticides on macroinvertebrate …

Constructed wetlands support bats in agricultural landscapes

P Stahlschmidt, A Pätzold, L Ressl, R Schulz… - Basic and Applied …, 2012 - Elsevier
Bats are known to use aquatic habitats as foraging habitats. Agricultural intensification is
perceived to be a main reason for the loss of wetlands. However, artificial wetland creation (ie …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoparticles in the environment: where do we come from, where do we go to?

…, G Metreveli, GE Schaumann, R Schulz… - Environmental Sciences …, 2018 - Springer
Nanoparticles serve various industrial and domestic purposes which is reflected in their steadily
increasing production volume. This economic success comes along with their presence …

Agricultural insecticides threaten surface waters at the global scale

S Stehle, R Schulz - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Compared with nutrient levels and habitat degradation, the importance of agricultural
pesticides in surface water may have been underestimated due to a lack of comprehensive …

Fungicides: an overlooked pesticide class?

…, K Smalling, S Stehle, R Schulz… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Fungicides are indispensable to global food security and their use is forecasted to intensify.
Fungicides can reach aquatic ecosystems and occur in surface water bodies in agricultural …

Field studies on exposure, effects, and risk mitigation of aquatic nonpoint‐source insecticide pollution: A review

R Schulz - Journal of environmental quality, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, much attention has been focused on insecticides as a group of chemicals combining
high toxicity to invertebrates and fishes with low application rates, which complicates …

Antiviral drugs in wastewater and surface waters: a new pharmaceutical class of environmental relevance?

C Prasse, MP Schlüsener, R Schulz… - … science & technology, 2010 - ACS Publications
An analytical method was developed for the determination of nine antiviral drugs (acyclovir,
abacavir, lamivudine, nevirapine oseltamivir, penciclovir, ribavirin, stavudine, zidovudine) …

Size-, surface-and crystalline structure composition-related effects of titanium dioxide nanoparticles during their aquatic life cycle

F Seitz, RR Rosenfeldt, S Schneider, R Schulz… - Science of the total …, 2014 - Elsevier
Nanoparticle toxicity depends amongst others on particle characteristics and nanoparticle
behavior during their aquatic life cycle. Aquatic organisms may be exposed to nanoparticle …