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Global warming particularly affects the water regime of ecosystems in cold, northern regions states a study of ERC fellow Dörthe Tetzlaff.

The IGB-researchers Stella Berger and Sabine Wollrab have a lot to do in the coming weeks. As part of the CONNECT project, their team is installing measuring buoys on 18 lakes in the North German lowlands.

Researchers of IGB and ZFMK have revised 30 species of the genus Cobitis and discovered eight new species in Turkey. Two of them are already considered extinct.

Hardly any group of organisms on our planet has been researched as little as lentic fungi. IGB scientist Hans-Peter Grossart collected ten fascinating facts about these organisms.

Dörthe Tetzlaff und colleagues from the University of Aberdeen developed and testet model on the spread and fate of faecal bacteria in rivers and their surrounding landscapes.

15 girls on board for the Girls' Day at IGB - curious and everything but hydrophobic! 

In its statement, the Senate of the Leibniz Association attests a positive development of IGB and recommends that the Federal Government and the Länder continue funding the institute.

In March 2019, IGB researchers and technicians sampled the Spree and its tributaries. They have been doing this once a year since 2015, from the source in Upper Lusatia to the estuary into the Havel. The background is the contamination with sulphate and iron from the brown coal mining regions of Lusatia.