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Researchers with Robert Arlinghaus have summarized how technical innovations can affect anglers, fisheries management and fish populations. 

Jenny Vivas Munoz has shown that European perch change their diet composition as a result of eye fluke infection - they feed more selectively as the intensity of the parasite infestation increases.

IGB researchers gave feedback on the planned EU soil strategy.

"What does a freshwater scientist actually do?" was the topic of the Girls' Day at IGB. This year, the 30 participants looked over the shoulders of three female scientists virtually. 

As part of her doctoral thesis, Birgit Müller investigated how trace organic compounds are transformed with other organic substances in flowing waters and at the boundary between water and sediment.

In the Leibniz Research Alliance INFECTIONS'21 Hans-Peter Grossart will investigate the antibiotic resistances and species compositions of microorganisms in the freshwater ecosystems of Berlin.

IGB researchers reveal deficiencies in the scoping document for the Strategic Environmental Assessment on the Border River Oder.

Many prey animals react collectively to predators. They transmit information about potential predators in no time at all to trigger and coordinate escape behaviours. Jens Krause and IGB guest scientist Ralf Kuvers, together with colleagues, found out that parasite infections can disrupt this transmission in a swarm.