Results & Publications

Samples from the Environmental Specimen Bank provide the data basis for studies, monitoring or ecosystem observations.

Human samples

2021: Children's Survey - Investigation of pollutants in primary school children

Study: Results of the Austrian Children's Biomonitoring Survey 2020 Part A: Per- and polyfluorinated alkylated substances, bisphenols, parabens and other xenobiotics.

Study: Results of the Austrian Children's Biomonitoring Survey 2020 Part B: Mycotoxins, phytotoxins, phytoestrogens and food processing contaminants.

Animal samples

2021: PureAlps: monitoring of pollutants in the Alps

Monitoring of Persistent Pollutants in the Alps

2021: Pilot study to investigate possible contaminants in brown hares

A preliminary study on the detection of potential contaminants in the European brown hare (Lepus europaeus) by suspect and microplastics screening

2020: Rodenticides in foxes, birds and fish: A first Austrian case study

Rodenticides in the environment (German report)

2020: Pilot study: Dichlorodiphenylsulfone in cormorants and Danube fish

Bis(4-chlorophenyl) sulfone (BCPS) concentrations found in Austrian freshwater fish and cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) indicating trophic transport and biomagnification – A screening pilot-study

Ecosystem samples

1992-2019 leaves/needles/soil: Long- and short-Term inorganic nitrogen runoff from Karst Catchment in Austria

Long- and Short-Term Inorganic Nitrogen Runoff from a Karst Catchment in Austria

2015-2016 soil/leaf litter: Effects of aspect and altitude on carbon cycling processes in a temperature mountain forest catchment

Effects of aspect and altitude on carbon cycling processes in a temperate mountain forest catchment

2014 soil/leaf litter: Intensive ground vegetation growth mitigates the carbon loss after forest disturbance

Intensive ground vegetation growth mitigates the carbon loss after forest disturbance

2011 soil/leaf litter: Effects of stand patchiness due to windthrow and bark beetle abatement measures on soil CO2 efflux and net ecosystem productivity of a managed temperature mountain forest 

Effects of stand patchiness due to windthrow and bark beetle abatement measures on soil CO2 efflux and net ecosystem productivity of a managed temperate mountain forest

1992-2004 soil: Soil type affects migration pattern of airborne Pb and Cd under a spruce-beech forest of the UN-ECE integrated monitoring site Zöbelboden, Austria

Soil type affects migration pattern of airborne Pb and Cd under a spruce-beech forest of the UN-ECE integrated monitoring site Zöbelboden, Austria