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When hippos are displaced by large herds of cattle in Kenya, aquatic ecosystems change. Gabriel Singer and team therefore took a close look at the dung of hippopotamus and cattle: the differences in amount and type of the input are significant.

The combined effect of several stressors is sometimes greater than the sum of the individual effects - this is the conclusion of the MARS project with Markus Venohr and Mark Gessner.

This year’s winners are Fengzhi He, Mandy Velthuis and Nico Martyniuk. The International Society of Limnology awards the prize every two years for the three best publications in the field of limnology.

A new generation of scientists is teaching the next generation about lakes and climate change with MANTEL Pieces, a set of twelve short videos for 12-14 year olds.

The knowledge gained from ecohydrology enables nature-based solutions for the management of global water resources. A review article with Dörthe Tetzlaff shows the progress in ecohydrology research.

A team with Hans-Peter Grossart found out that in some cases more carbon dioxide is produced in the dry ground than in the water.

Special Issue on groundwater: Many drinking water resources depend on the exchange between ground and surface water. Nutrients and pollutants can also be transported, converted, retained or accumulated along the flow paths. 

Im Interview: Professor Dirk Schulze-Makuch: er hat für die NASA gearbeitet, einen Science-Fiction-Roman geschrieben – und seit Sommer 2019 einen Lehrstuhl für Planetare Habitibilität und Astrobiologie an der TU Berlin inne, zudem eine Anstellung am IGB.