About "Controls" in Pollution-Ecology Experiments in the Anthropocene

Matthias C Rillig^{1

2}, Shin Woong Kim^{1

2}, Andreas Schäffer^{3

4

5}, Gabriel Sigmund⁶, Ksenia J Groh⁷, Zhanyun Wang⁸

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
² Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
³ Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
⁴ School of the Environment, State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, 163 Xianling Road, 210023 Nanjing, China.
⁵ Key Laboratory of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region's Eco-Environment, Chongqing University, 174 Shazheng Street Shapingba, 400045 Chongqing, China.
⁶ Department of Environmental Geosciences, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
⁷ Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
⁸ Technology and Society Laboratory, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 9014 St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Matthias C Rillig et al. Environ Sci Technol. 2022.

. 2022 Sep 6;56(17):11928-11930.

doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c05460. Epub 2022 Aug 23.

Matthias C Rillig^{1

2}, Shin Woong Kim^{1

2}, Andreas Schäffer^{3

4

5}, Gabriel Sigmund⁶, Ksenia J Groh⁷, Zhanyun Wang⁸

¹ Institute for Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
² Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
³ Institute for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
⁴ School of the Environment, State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, 163 Xianling Road, 210023 Nanjing, China.
⁵ Key Laboratory of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region's Eco-Environment, Chongqing University, 174 Shazheng Street Shapingba, 400045 Chongqing, China.
⁶ Department of Environmental Geosciences, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
⁷ Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
⁸ Technology and Society Laboratory, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 9014 St. Gallen, Switzerland.

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Keywords: background pollution; communication; experimental controls; experiments; multiple factors; pollution.

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