Projects

Charophytes are declining in European lakes despite protection. Our research explores how light and nutrients affect their growth vs. vascular plants, revealing key insights for lake restoration.

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

The goal of the PREDATOR project is to understand the impact of recreational fishing pressure on the behavior of natural fish populations.

Bereits seit 2007 werden im Rahmen eines Wiederansiedlungsprojekts jährlich Jungfische des seltenen Baltischen Störs in die Oder ausgewildert. Von dort wandern die Tiere in die Ostsee ab und kehren erst viele Jahre später zurück, um sich im Fluss fortzupflanzen. Doch wie viele der jungen Störe überstehen diese Wanderung und welchen Gefahren sind sie auf ihrem Weg ausgesetzt? Das Projekt HaffStör geht diesen Fragen nach.

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.

This project is developing tools and methods to study biodiversity and the possible consequences of ecosystem change in small water bodies.

The “GeoFRESH” online platform will allow high-resolution geospatial queries of the global hydrographic network, and enables users to download analysis-ready environmental data.

The relative influence of biodiversity and biotic interactions on the early stages of phytoplankton bloom formation.