Projects

FIThydro addresses the decision support in commissioning and operating hydro-power plants (HPP) through the use of existing and innovative technologies and the integration of ecological, technical, economic and societal perspectives to improve sustainable hydropower use at a maximum mitigation of ecological impacts.

Our aim is the investigation of regional, i.e. landscape-scale, mechanisms of carbon dissimilation in ‘fluvial metaecosystems’.

This project’s overall objective is to better forecast the future of invasions and their impacts worldwide.

Freshwater Megafauna Futures: Diversity, Functions, Threats, and Implications for Biodiversity Conservation
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Food web dynamics and energy transport from phyto- to zooplankton under the influence of parasitic fungi.

Climate change affects not only air temperature and precipitation, but also our streams and rivers: water temperature is rising, river flow characteristics are changing, oxygen concentration is sinking, while nutrient concentrations increase. This is not without consequence for the plants and animals living in freshwaters.

The aim of this proposal is to analyze the impact of storms on phytoplankton communities through joint analysis of meteorological, limnological and phytoplankton data from 21 lakes located in the US, Canada (the majority), Europe, Israel and Japan.

Global freshwater biodiversity, biogeography & conservation