Repo for the publication: Paradise lost? Pesticide pollution in a European region with considerable amount of traditional agriculture

This repo contains the R code and data for the related manuscript published in Water Research.

Written by Verena C. Schreiner, revised by Moritz Link and Ralf B. Schäfer

Contents overview:

R_Schreiner_Romania_analytics: provides the R Markdown code to calculate water concentrations, sum concentrations, toxicities and the related statistics

All_det_SDB: all compounds detected via SDB passive sampling

Buffer_width_June: buffer width during June

CAS_type_name: information on CAS, name and type of analysed compounds

catchment: information on land use in upstream catchment area.

Code_SDB: translation of codes of SDB disks

Comp_Cal_ext: information on calibration (compounds: Carbendazim + Simazin-2-hydroxy)

Comp_type: information on compound type

conc: *water concentration of all detected pesticides"

Concentrations_PDMS: water concentrations calculated from PDMS sheets

Concentrations_SDB: water concentrations calculated from SDB disks

EC50: information on toxicity of detected compounds

field_size_factor: information on agricultural intensity as a factorial variable

Fields_mean_median_geom_mean: information on field size adjacent to sampling sites

flow_raw: raw data of flow velocity close to samplers.

habitat: habitat information

Not_worked: compounds that were excluded due to problems in chemical analysis.

Pesticide_gradient: gradient of pesticide sum concentration and toxicity towards algae as well as invertebrates

Results_SDB: results from SDB analytics (analytical concentrations)

Rip_buffer: information on land use in riparian buffer.

Rs_known: sampling rates (experimentally determined) for SDB disks.

stream_substrate: information on stream substrate at sampling sites.

temp_raw: raw data of water temperature at each site.