Projects

In this DFG-funded project, we will develop experiments and theoretical models testing whether explicitly accounting for interactions between key evolutionary and community processes results in a better understanding of species and community responses to environmental change.

This project aims at studying the link between sex determination systems and initiation and maintenance of asexuality through a comparative analysis of gametogenesis and early embryogenesis, underlying the mechanistic basis of altered gametogenic pathways of "asexual" reproduction.

Aquatic fungal biodiversity

LILA (Lake Issyk-Kul Environmental Laboratory)

Shrimp farming rapidly expanded over the last two decades, but animal welfare has largely been overlooked. Only recently, welfare considerations paved the route for stricter regulations on animal welfare in decapod crustaceans.

SO-SCALE aims to achieve a novel integrated, cross-compartmental and cross-scale understanding of the partitioning of incoming precipitation in agricultural systems. 

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

Multidisciplinary studies on the conditions leading to the mass development of toxic algae in the Odra river and on the occurred population losses of aquatic organisms and their regeneration, as well as on the strengthening of resilience, ecosystem services and development scenarios for the coupled river-floodplain ecosystem.