Projects

Submerged freshwater plants are rapidly declining worldwide despite their central role in ecosystem functioning. By integrating physiology, morphology, and microbiome dynamics, the PlantsCoChallenge project investigates how warming, hypoxia, and biotic stressors shape plant resilience, with a focus at IGB on the globally widespread sago pondweed (Stuckenia pectinata).

The EU funded OSCARS project AQUANAVI develops a navigation platform representing aquatic mesocosm facilities and their research, providing contact points and knowledge for your future experiments and collaborations. 

Using the water flea Daphnia to test for ecological and evolutionary effects of light pollution.

IGB Focus in a broad international project: Assessment of the impact of treated olive oil by-products on aquatic ecosystems and optimization of sustainable irrigation management

Inner-city ponds provide essential functions for urban areas, but their stability is threatened by many stressors such as anthropogenic pollution. The project leaders aim to investigate whether pond ecosystems become more resilient through evolutionary or microbiome-mediated adaptation of water fleas (Daphnia) to urban pollution.

The nature of interactions between the freshwater mosses, their microbiome, and the associated toxic cyanobacteria

This research project is shaping the foundation for Germany’s first nationwide regulation to reduce light pollution.

Effects of non-stationary flow and a moving riverbed on organic trace substances.