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A new IGB Manual helps those seeking assistance to find solutions when lakes appear to be out of balance.

Researchers explain the ecological developments in Lake Stechlin and the latest findings in a new IGB Dossier. In it, they also provide an assessment of which follow-up actions now appear appropriate.

IGB researchers emphasise the great importance of the WFD for sustainable water management.

River restoration is important, but it is often a lengthy process. A new study in Nature Communications Earth & Environment identifies areas where research and action can be integrated.

The IGB river researcher Sonja Jähnig is calling for further migratory fish species to be included in the appendices of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS).

Protected areas are meant to preserve endangered species and stabilize ecosystems. But for many European rivers, this protection apparently falls short. This is the finding of a new study in Nature Communications led by the Senckenberg Nature Research Society, in which IGB participated.

Researchers at IGB have simulated how summer storms change the ecology of deep, clear lakes in the “LakeLab” at Lake Stechlin. They artificially generated a storm in the LakeLab enclosures, which mixed the water column. This brought nutrients, inorganic carbon, and algae from deeper layers to the surface, triggering a mass development of cyanobacteria—known as blue-green algae blooms.

A study in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment has shown that most of the lakes studied worldwide are located in North America, Asia and Europe, with the Global South being severely underrepresented in lake research.