Projects

The new German-Chinese cooperation project deals with ice-covered lakes of the Tibetan and Mongolian plateaus and their reaction to climate change. The aim is to set up an international research network that will close the gap in knowledge about ice-covered lakes as important but hitherto little-studied components of the hydrological and climatic system.

Which network of protected areas could assure freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services under present and future environmental conditions, at the lowest possible cost?

RESIST- A Collaborative Research Centre on multiple stressor affecting streams and rivers.

Water-ForCE will bring together experts on water quality and quantity, in policy, research, engineering and service sectors to develop a Roadmap for the water component for the future Copernicus services.

IGB (project lead Thomas Mehner) is part of a consortium that is running a new Horizon 2020 project ‘PONDERFUL’, led by the University of Vic (Spain). The project’s overarching aim is to develop improved methods for maximising the use of ponds and pondscapes in climate change adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity conservation and the delivery of ecosystem services.

We here address one of the arguably most fundamental questions associated with exploration behaviour in biological systems: how do behavioural-experiential trajectories dynamically unfold in newly born organisms? That is, when being confronted with an unknown environment, what are the exact sequences of exploration behaviours and associated experiences that real-world organisms go through, from day 1 of their life?

Was leisten Auen für die Wasserqualität in der Donau und wie können unterschiedliche Nutzungsinteressen über Ländergrenzen hinweg berücksichtigt werden?

Network of Leading Ecosystem Scale Experimental AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Rivers, Lakes, Estuaries and Oceans in Europe and beyond