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Algal blooms in the Oder River can now be detected earlier with the ODER~SO dashboard: Scientists working on the ODER~SO project have developed a platform that uses satellite data to show the development of algal blooms in the river in near real time. The platform is now available for public use.

Internal clocks can tick very differently. While some people are most productive in the morning, others are only active later in the day or at night. This phenomenon is known in science and medicine as chronotype. In a comprehensive analysis of the activity patterns of wild fish, a research team involving the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) has shown that fish – carp, trout, zander, and others – also have individual early and late risers. The results were published in the journal Fish and Fisheries. 

Sufficient light, but fewer dead insects – that's what Selux's “Tal Shield: Insect-Friendly Street Lighting” provides. The lighting system, developed with IGB, was awarded the German Sustainability Prize in the “Transformation Products Nature” category. A

IGB scientist Dr Oleksandra Shumilova was honored with the Caroline von Humboldt Award today. The award, which is endowed with 15,000 euros, is given annually to an excellent female postdoctoral researcher from Germany or abroad as a distinction for her scientific achievements and successes to date and serves to support a research stay at HU Berlin.

A research team from IGB has analysed the zooplankton communities in the White Nile and Blue Nil in Khartoum. It is the first study of plankton in the Sudan Nile since the 1980s and provides an important baseline for monitoring of the river‘s biodiversity in the face of ongoing hydropower dam construction.

A new IGB dossier describes the changes in Brandenburg's landscape water balance and outlines options for action in agriculture, forestry and water management.

Accurately detecting microplastic particles poses major challenges for researchers from various disciplines. A team of environmental scientists has described the methodological difficulties in the journal Nature Medicine and calls for more standardized methods in biomonitoring.

Dagmar Frisch heads the new IGB research group "Evolutionary Ecology and Global Change". We asked her three questions: one about her work, one personal and one to allow her creativity to flourish.