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Rita Adrian has been working as a climate impact expert at IGB for 28 years. Now she is going into retirement – well, almost. In an interview, she explains how she became a limnologist, and why she believes it is right to have a quota for women in science.

Lynn Govaert has been the head of the new research group Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics. She studies how ecological and evolutionary processes shape communities and metacommunities in their response to environmental change.

IGB has submitted an expert statement on the Trans-European Transport Network.

IGB researchers gave feedback on the planned EU soil strategy.

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

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.

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.