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Around half of the hydropower plants in Romania are located in nature conservation areas. These are mostly small plants that contribute only 3 percent of Romania's electricity generation, but threaten biodiversity.

The “Zeitschrift für Fischerei” (or “FischZeit” for short) is the first peer-reviewed, German-language journal for fisheries research that brings together knowledge on all aspects of commercial and recreational fisheries, aquaculture, stock management, and fish conservation in inland, coastal and marine ecosystems.

Jonathan Jeschke has studied the close relationships between infectious diseases and biological invasions.

Lynn Govaert has been the head of the new research group Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics. She studies how ecological and evolutionary processes shape communities and metacommunities in their response to environmental change.

IGB has submitted an expert statement on the Trans-European Transport Network.

Peter Casper has significantly shaped the research of the IGB at Lake Stechlin for decades. Today is his last working day as research group leader. A good reason to look back.

Researchers with Robert Arlinghaus have summarized how technical innovations can affect anglers, fisheries management and fish populations. 

Jenny Vivas Munoz has shown that European perch change their diet composition as a result of eye fluke infection - they feed more selectively as the intensity of the parasite infestation increases.