Projects

We analyse the effects of wind-induced mixing on phytoplankton development in the shallow lake Tai near Shanghai.

Large-scale citizen science study on green-house gas concentration and microbial diversity in German inland waters

Invasion biology has addressed or even solved several key questions about biological invasions, but the central issue of long-term effects of invasive species has remained critically unexplored. Several case studies exist about long-term population dynamics of invasive species and their impacts, but a general synthesis or understanding is currently lacking. This knowledge gap is critical, as long-term shifts in invader population densities and traits are likely and may have large consequences of ecological and economic interest. This project aims to narrow the knowledge gap.

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.

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

Vegetation effects on water flow and mixing in high-latitude ecosystems

LandScales (Connecting processes and structures driving the landscape carbon dynamics over scales) integrated the aquatic and terrestrial perspectives of landscape carbon dynamics within a multidisciplinary collaborative research environment, by characterising structures, processes, and fluxes across scales.

International graduate school on aquatic boundaries and linkages in a changing environment