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If fish are hunted by birds, it is essential to their survival that they are able to recognise when they are in danger from avian predators. Juliane Lukas, Jens Krause and David Bierbach from IGB have investigated whether fish are able to differentiate between real danger and non-threatening events.

In two special issues of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, researchers provide a scientific overview.

How do hydropower plants affect freshwater biodiversity? What do invasive species do in water bodies? Sonja Jähnig and Christian Wolter  in an interview with Juliane Grüning from the Deutscher Naturschutzring. 

Justyna Wolinska and Ramsy Agha study organisms that until now have largely been consigned to the shadows in the scientific world: parasites. In the interview, the two scientists explain why it may be worthwhile to look for the good in what appears to be bad.

Jonathan Jeschke has studied the close relationships between infectious diseases and biological invasions.

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

Jenny Vivas Munoz has shown that European perch change their diet composition as a result of eye fluke infection - they feed more selectively as the intensity of the parasite infestation increases.

IGB researchers gave feedback on the planned EU soil strategy.