Projects

IGB Focus in a broad international project: Assessment of the impact of treated olive oil by-products on aquatic ecosystems and optimization of sustainable irrigation management

Inner-city ponds provide essential functions for urban areas, but their stability is threatened by many stressors such as anthropogenic pollution. The project leaders aim to investigate whether pond ecosystems become more resilient through evolutionary or microbiome-mediated adaptation of water fleas (Daphnia) to urban pollution.

The nature of interactions between the freshwater mosses, their microbiome, and the associated toxic cyanobacteria

Multidisciplinary studies on the conditions leading to the mass development of toxic algae in the Odra river and on the occurred population losses of aquatic organisms and their regeneration, as well as on the strengthening of resilience, ecosystem services and development scenarios for the coupled river-floodplain ecosystem.

Effects of non-stationary flow and a moving riverbed on organic trace substances.

New sYsteM-driven bioremediation of Polluted Habitats and Environment

RESIST- A Collaborative Research Centre on multiple stressor affecting streams and rivers.

Species protection through environmentally friendly lighting

Tatort streetlight discovers causes for insect decline. Street lighting can severely impair nocturnal flying insects, as many insects are attracted to the light of the luminaires and withdrawn from their actual habitats. Help us to investigate which insects are affected by street lighting and how environmentally sound lighting solutions can help preserve the insects' habitat.