Selected publications

The authors tested the impact of simulated ripple migration on two types of river sediment, namely aquatic sediment and incoming soil from eroding riverbanks, and compared them to stationary conditions in a microcosm experiment. Ripple migration influences community dynamics and microbial metabolism and decelerates the colonization of incoming soil from eroding riverbanks.

Beaver dams and associated wetlands can alter hydrological connectivity and biogeochemical processes,, but their combined influence on nutrient dynamics remains understudied. The authors investigated the effects of a network of beaver-impacted waters on macronutrients dynamics in an intermittent stream network showing the effectiveness of beaver created wetlands as nature-based solutions.

Science benefits from the rapid and open exchange of knowledge. However, there is a lack of appropriate community standards for data exchange between different institutions. In this article the authors discuss improvements for the exchange of extensive microbiome data.

The study shows that, of the approximately 2,500 lakes that had been scientifically investigated by 2020, around 50 per cent were located in North America, 21 per cent in Asia, and 16 per cent in Europe. In contrast, lakes in Africa, South America and Oceania have been much less researched.