Projects

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

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.

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.

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

Neurotoxic cyanobacteria in association with aquatic plants pose a real health threat, which could even further increase in the future.

In this scientific network, we are investigating social-ecological networks in urban areas in an international and interdisciplinary team over a period of three years.