14 May 2019 press release Tomatofish receives the Dahrendorf Prize IGB-team receives the Ralf Dahrendorf Prize for the "Tomatofish". Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek presents the prize in Berlin.
13 May 2019 press release Anglers ensure diversity of fish species in small gravel pit lakes Lakes managed by recreational anglers are characterised by a higher natural fish diversity than gravel pits without fishing management.
9 May 2019 short news No free flow Just one-third of the world’s longest rivers remain free-flowing says a comprehensive study, published in the journal Nature. Christiane Zarfl, a former member of IGB, and Klement Tockner, long-time director of IGB, played a key role in the study.
6 May 2019 focus Statement on the IPBES-Report On 6 May 2019, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) published a summary for decision-makers on the IPBES-Report. IGB researcher Sonja Jähnig gives a statement.
3 May 2019 press release Threatened sturgeon learns for the fitness Sturgeon training can increase their fitness for the wild. Already a two-week "learning lead" made the search for food more efficient, says a recent study of Sven Würtz and Jörn Gessner.
2 May 2019 short news The effects of climate change on vegetation and water regime in northern latitudes Global warming particularly affects the water regime of ecosystems in cold, northern regions states a study of ERC fellow Dörthe Tetzlaff.
25 April 2019 insight Measuring buoys on 18 lakes The IGB-researchers Stella Berger and Sabine Wollrab have a lot to do in the coming weeks. As part of the CONNECT project, their team is installing measuring buoys on 18 lakes in the North German lowlands.
17 April 2019 short news New fish species Researchers of IGB and ZFMK have revised 30 species of the genus Cobitis and discovered eight new species in Turkey. Two of them are already considered extinct.
12 April 2019 focus Not just „microbial dark matter“ anymore Hardly any group of organisms on our planet has been researched as little as lentic fungi. IGB scientist Hans-Peter Grossart collected ten fascinating facts about these organisms.
4 April 2019 press release Going with the flow: how faecal bacteria spread in streams Dörthe Tetzlaff und colleagues from the University of Aberdeen developed and testet model on the spread and fate of faecal bacteria in rivers and their surrounding landscapes.
