Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), extensively used across multiple industries, has long been discussed for its potential to enhance heavy metal mobility in aquatic systems, with studies yielding contradictory results. This study examines the remobilization of particle-bound lead from suspended particulate matter (SPM) in the Innerste River (Lower Saxony, Germany), which is affected by historical mining and known for subs...

Root biomass contributes a significant proportion of total biomass and carbon storage in forest ecosystems. Deadwood (including dead roots) is an essential component of the ecosystem carbon (C) balance. Currently there are some shortcomings in the reporting of deadwood regarding the completeness and the level of detail. So far it is not possible to report about dead coarse roots since there is no existing data. Therefore, we a...

Purpose With the increasing importance of sustainable development, reflected in various policies, life cycle assessment (LCA) guidelines for different industries and materials have emerged in recent years, mainly linked to batteries and their raw materials. This paper analyses the inconsistency between different industries’ LCA guidelines, their practical implications and the potential way forward. Methods In this publication,...

The European Union (EU) Battery Regulation aims to establish a circular battery production and sets minimum battery material recycled targets for new batteries from post‐production and post‐consumer waste batteries. However, it is uncertain whether these targets can be met due to dynamic market developments and if their compliance results in environmental benefits. Therefore, this study examines the circular battery production...

The fast and accurate provision of within-season data of green area index ( GAI ) and total N uptake ( total N ) is the basis for crop modeling and precision agriculture. However, due to rapid advancements in multispectral sensors and the high sampling effort, there is currently no existing reference work for the calibration of one UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)-based multispectral sensor to GAI and total N for silage maize, wi...

Coarse woody debris (CWD) is a major component of the ecosystem carbon (C) balance. The estimation of C storage in CWD is an important element of the German greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting of forests, which is mainly based on the German National Forest Inventory. The deadwood C stock is calculated based on deadwood volume and, according to deadwood density (DD) and carbon concentration (CC) for each decay class (DC). Yet, the d...

Key message Three independent experiments with different genetic backgrounds mapped the resistance gene Pm7 in the oat genome to the distal part of the long arm of chromosome 5D. Abstract Resistance of oat to Blumeria graminis DC. f. sp. avenae is an important breeding goal in Central and Western Europe. In this study, the position of the effective and widely used resistance gene Pm7 in the oat genome was determined based on t...

Summary The flow of carbon under sulfate‐reducing conditions within a benzene‐mineralizing enrichment culture was analysed using fully labelled [ 13 C 6 ]‐benzene. Over 180 days of incubation, 95% of added 13 C‐benzene was released as 13 C‐carbon dioxide. DNA extracted from cultures that had degraded different amounts of unlabelled or 13 C‐labelled benzene was centrifuged in CsCl density gradients to identify 13 C‐benzene‐assi...