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IGB scientist Dr Oleksandra Shumilova was honored with the Caroline von Humboldt Award today. The award, which is endowed with 15,000 euros, is given annually to an excellent female postdoctoral researcher from Germany or abroad as a distinction for her scientific achievements and successes to date and serves to support a research stay at HU Berlin.

A research team from IGB has analysed the zooplankton communities in the White Nile and Blue Nil in Khartoum. It is the first study of plankton in the Sudan Nile since the 1980s and provides an important baseline for monitoring of the river‘s biodiversity in the face of ongoing hydropower dam construction.

A new IGB dossier describes the changes in Brandenburg's landscape water balance and outlines options for action in agriculture, forestry and water management.

Accurately detecting microplastic particles poses major challenges for researchers from various disciplines. A team of environmental scientists has described the methodological difficulties in the journal Nature Medicine and calls for more standardized methods in biomonitoring.