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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.

Cooperations welcome to investigate and optimally use long-term data on changes of lakes and their organisms. The metagenome data as well as limnological and biological data come from four different types of lakes.

IGB gave feedback on three interlinked European biodiversity initiatives and supports binding EU restoration targets.

From 5 to 12 April 2021 is the International Dark Sky Week. We want to draw attention to the issue of light pollution. Researchers from IGB are studying the effects of artificial light on insects.

A large international field experiment with Monika Degebrodt and Mark Gessner demonstrates the importance of riparian plant diversity for leaf litter decomposition in stream ecosystems.

Only recently, colleagues managed to sequence the genome of the sturgeon. Our doctoral student Christin Höhne has now developed an extensive overview of the immune system of sturgeon.

Lakes in Arctic or boreal regions are usually covered by ice for several months. Such lakes are home to specialised algae (phytoplankton) that grow right under the ice and dominate the spring bloom. But what happens when the ice cover of these waters decreases as a result of climate change? A new model predicts abrupt changes.

Today is World Water Day. In an interview, IGB doctoral student Helena Huđek and her scientific supervisor Martin Pusch report on the state of Europe’s rivers, and how to get them flowing again.