This video shows a column experiment simulating bank filtration to investigate the effects of benthic organisms (Nuttall's waterweed and Quagga mussels) on trace organic compounds.
Michael Thayne, doctoral student in the Department of Ecosystem Research at IGB, explains how lakes can have a natural resilience that helps their ecosystems to recover from the effects of climate change and other human pressures.
Truls Hansson, doctoral student in the Department of Experimental Limnology at IGB, has made a video on how the production of methane from lakes (‘farting’ lakes) might contribute to climate change.
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While a response to global climate change might be gradual, abrupt changes are possible when critical thresholds by additional effects of local stressors are exceeded.
Dr. Jan Köhler und Dr. Tom Shatwell konnten mithilfe von Langzeitdaten nachweisen, dass eine Reduzierung von Stickstoff der Schlüssel zur Vermeidung von Algenblüten in Seen sein kann.
IGB scientists Dr. Tom Shatwell and Dr. Jan Köhler have analysed long-term data to prove that decreasing nitrogen in Berlin’s Lake Müggelsee is the key to reducing algal blooms in summer.
