Videos

Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on our Planet. It serves multiple functions in regulating chemistry of the atmosphere, water supply, production of biomass and recycling essential nutrients.

AQUACOSM is an integrated, international network of experimental infrastructures of 21 marine and freshwater research institutes.

Moderiert von Wissenschaftsjournalist Ralf Nestler sprachen Christian Marx (TU Berlin/IGB), Verena Fehlenberg (BUND), Wolfgang Haupt (IRS), Rita Adrian (IGB) und Gunnar Lischeid (ZALF) über Dürren, sinkende Grundwasserspiegel und Wasserpegel, steigende Temperaturen, Baumsterben und Artenverlust sowie den wachsenden Durst der Metropole.

Global warming is increasing the temperatures of lakes worldwide. Benjamin Kraemer teamed up with colleagues to quantify the long-term temperature changes in 139 lakes worldwide.

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.

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.

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.