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The new IGB Policy Brief highlights opportunities and challenges. Our researchers recommend a fundamental debate in politics and society.

It crosses ten countries, running over 2,800 kilometres from source to mouth, is a border river, and has been used as a passage for trade for millennia: the Danube is a veritable transnational river – and a challenge for freshwater management.

Max Lau and Michael Hupfer found out at Lake Iseo when lakes warm up as a result of climate change, the water is only partially mixed, thus promoting phosphorus accumulation in deep water.

The State Secretary for Agriculture and the Environment of Brandenburg, Silvia Bender, visited IGB at Lake Stechlin on 20 August.

Lake Stechlin is known as one of the largest and deepest oligotrophic lakes in northern Germany. However, the condition of the lake has deteriorated increasingly rapidly over the past twenty years – as shown by long-term research conducted by IGB.

Or how it is, to become a Dr. during Corona. Congratulations to three successful IGB doctoral students who had to defend their doctoral thesis in difficult times. We asked them how defending under those special circumstances felt.

The decomposition of plant litter is the second most important ecosystem process in the biosphere. Mark Gessner and colleagues have released a new edition of their comprehensive methods book on litter decomposition in fresh waters.

Landscapes are heterogeneous and often contain patches of habitats – lakes are great examples for such island-like habitats. However, they form invisible networks: metacommunities.