Projects

FIThydro addresses the decision support in commissioning and operating hydro-power plants (HPP) through the use of existing and innovative technologies and the integration of ecological, technical, economic and societal perspectives to improve sustainable hydropower use at a maximum mitigation of ecological impacts.

Traveling from rivers to the sea and back is a major task in a sturgeon’s life and now he even takes children and young adults on his journey. By means of joint actions children explore their aquatic environment and learn important facts related to the use and protection of water bodies as well as to the linkage of ecosystems.

In LakeBase we intend to bring long-term data of German lakes into one database infrastructure in order to make them visible and internationally assessable. 

Establishment of an information platform to bring knowledge and experience in restoration and recreation ecology on urban waters together.

The goal f the project is a close co-operation between scientists of the IGB and the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment on the field of lake protection and lake management.

Is a mismatch between periphyton and macrophyte development in spring crucial for submerged macrophyte recolonization in eutrophic shallow lakes?

A new EU regulation to address invasive species entered into force at the beginning of 2015. IGB is involved in a project run by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) in which a method is being further developed to identify invasive species that are of particular concern in Germany in the context of this EU regulation.

Comparing phenotypic plasticity in bacterial prey traits and ecological consequences by using specialist vs. generalist strains and organic aggregates as model systems.