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A new socioeconomic classification system classifies invasive species according to their direct impact on people's lives and shows which species should be controlled as priority.

Global climate change affects all ecosystems, including lakes – and is therefore the focus of long-term research conducted by Rita Adrian. In an interview, she explains how climatic changes have already had an impact on lakes and what we can expect in the future.

The EU financed project AQUACOSM will offer more than 11,500 person-days of Transnational Access to more than 37 different European mesocosm facilities between January 2018 and December 2020.

The environmental historian and nature writer Jessica J. Lee is currently investigating the literary and scientific history of Lake Stechlin.

Jonathan Jeschke und seine Koautoren sind mit dem Preis für die meistzitierte Veröffentlichung aus dem Jahr 2014 in der Zeitschrift Conservation Biology ausgezeichnet worden.

For one year, instruments have measured the distribution of nutrients in Lake Iseo in Northern Italy. Now they were retrieved and evaluated.

A new IGB study reveals the serious changes in European freshwater fish fauna over the last 170 years.

How does light pollution affect the immune system of fish? Franziska Kupprat investigates this question in her PhD thesis at the IGB.