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Lakes as the Müggelsee near Berlin are currently covered with an unusually thick carpet of algae. This algal bloom is primarily a result of the warm summer months, but there are also other reasons...

"Good catch!" - Several members of the IGB-research group "Integrative Recreational Fisheries Management" of Robert Arlinghaus were honoured within the last months.

Permafrost soils store large quantities of frozen carbon and play an important role in regulating Earth’s climate. River greenhouse gas emissions are highest in areas where Siberian permafrost is actively thawing.

How do the conditions set in this year's LakeLab experiment, i.e. skyglow and brownification, affect macrophytes and periphytons? This question is investigated by Ivana Trbojević from the University of Belgrade. The Serbian researcher spends a good four weeks at Lake Stechlin to strengthen the LakeLab team.

Scientists from  IGB have analysed long-term data to prove that decreasing nitrogen in Berlin’s Lake Müggelsee is the key to reducing algal blooms in summer.

How do you find food when the food is never exactly present at the same place or time? Looking at wild guppies, the solution seems to be: being social and surrounding yourself with females.

Ulrike Berninger, Professor of Ecology at the University of Salzburg in Austria, has long been interested in mixotrophic plankton. This refers to the small organisms floating in water that combine the properties of both zooplankton and phytoplankton. Depending on the environmental situation or individual requirements, these unicellular organisms can either take up food particles via phagocytosis or carry out photosynthesis using sunlight.

Doerthe Tetzlaff, head of IGB's Ecohydrology department for one year, has been honoured with the American Geophysical Union's Fellowship – as the first ever female hydrologist in Germany.