Projects

AQUANAVI

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.

Contact persons

Tina Heger

Jonathan Jeschke

Jens Christian Nejstgaard

Stella A. Berger

Katharina Makower

Department(s)

(Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology

(Dept. 5) Evolutionary and Integrative Ecology

CYCLOLIVE

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

Contact persons

Jens Christian Nejstgaard

Stella A. Berger

Department(s)

(Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology

POllution in UrbaN ponds, eco-evolutionary Dynamics, and Ecosystem Resilience (POUNDER)

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.

(Dept. 1) Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry

(Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology

(Dept. 5) Evolutionary and Integrative Ecology

Regulatory Strategies to Protect Wild Animals and Plants from Light Pollution

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

(Dept. 2) Community and Ecosystem Ecology

PLATON Project

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

Contact persons

Sabine Hilt

Department(s)

(Dept. 2) Community and Ecosystem Ecology

Incident-related special investigation programme for the environmental disaster in the Oder River of August 2022 (ODER~SO)

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.

(Dept. 1) Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry

(Dept. 2) Community and Ecosystem Ecology

(Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology

(Dept. 4) Fish Biology, Fisheries and Aquaculture

(Dept. 5) Evolutionary and Integrative Ecology

Dynamic hyporheic zone

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

(Dept. 1) Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry

NYMPHE

New sYsteM-driven bioremediation of Polluted Habitats and Environment

(Dept. 1) Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry

Multilevel REsponse to Stressor Increase and release in STream ecosystems (RESIST, CRC 1439)

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

Contact persons

Sonja Jähnig

Graciela Medina Madariaga

Department(s)

(Dept. 2) Community and Ecosystem Ecology

Species protection through environmental friendly lighting (AuBe)

Species protection through environmentally friendly lighting

Tatort streetlight discovers causes for insect decline. Street lighting can severely impair nocturnal flying insects, as many insects are attracted to the light of the luminaires and withdrawn from their actual habitats. Help us to investigate which insects are affected by street lighting and how environmentally sound lighting solutions can help preserve the insects' habitat.

(Dept. 2) Community and Ecosystem Ecology