Projects

We are proud to host a number of researchers (interns, doctoral candidates, Postdocs) that come with their own funding.

Our aim is the investigation of regional, i.e. landscape-scale, mechanisms of carbon dissimilation in ‘fluvial metaecosystems’.

This project’s overall objective is to better forecast the future of invasions and their impacts worldwide.

Freshwater Megafauna Futures: Diversity, Functions, Threats, and Implications for Biodiversity Conservation
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Aquatic fungal biodiversity

Food web dynamics and energy transport from phyto- to zooplankton under the influence of parasitic fungi.

The “GeoFRESH” online platform will allow high-resolution geospatial queries of the global hydrographic network, and enables users to download analysis-ready environmental data.

Climate change affects not only air temperature and precipitation, but also our streams and rivers: water temperature is rising, river flow characteristics are changing, oxygen concentration is sinking, while nutrient concentrations increase. This is not without consequence for the plants and animals living in freshwaters.