Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB) im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.
Research Grants
Current projects
Can parasite evolution reinforce the effects of climate warming?
(Applicant Wolinska, Justyna )
Developing improved social-ecological scenarios for biodiversity and ecosystem services in north temperate freshwater ecosystems over the next half century (Applicants Adrian, Ph.D., Rita ; Pahl-Wostl, Claudia )
Integrating effects of chytrid parasitism into carbon flows in pelagic food webs (Applicant Agha, Ph.D., Ramsy )
Is the Large Aral Sea turning meromictic? Tracing the ongoing changes in the physical and biogeochemical regime of the world’s most dynamic lake ecosystem (Large Aral and Meromixis)
(Applicant Kirillin, Georgiy )
Lake pycnoclines trap organic particles forming hot spots of accelerated carbon cycling in the water column
(Applicant Grossart, Hans-Peter )
Living time capsules: tracing evolutionary adaptation in a changing world (Applicant Frisch, Dagmar )
Completed projects Projects
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Ablagerungen partikulären Materials im Litoral des Müggelsees, deren Bildung, Verbleib und Bedeutung für das Ökosystem im plankton- und im
makrophytendominierten Zustand (Applicant Kozerski, Hans-Peter )
A cross-taxa assessment of the impact of climate change on population abundance (Applicant Böhning-Gaese, Katrin )
Analysing size-density relationships of aquatic communities in response to strength of predator-prey interactions and resource subsidy
(Applicant Mehner, Thomas )
An Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in the Field: studies and numerical modeling of hydrodynamics, morphodynamics and invertebrate ecology in river meanders
(Applicant Sukhodolov, Ph.D., Alexander )
Auswirkungen der Aufnahme von Cyanobakterien (Mikrocystis) und darauf
assoziierter Bakterien auf Wachstum, Stoffwechsel und Verhalten juveniler Plötzen (Rutilus rutilus)
(Applicant Mehner, Thomas )
Auswirkung interner Wellen auf mikrobielle Habitate kund Aktivitäten sowie den Stoffaustausch an der Wasser-Sediment-Grenzschicht des Stechlinsees
(Applicant Grossart, Hans-Peter )
Changes in struvture and function of fosh community in an mesotrophic lake after enhancement of piscirous fish biomass(food web manipulation)
(Applicant Mehner, Thomas )
Combining bottom-up and top-down analyses to test fundamental concepts in invasion biology
(Applicant Jeschke, Jonathan )
Dissolved Organic Nitrogen Composition and Processing in Agricultural Catchments (DONCOPRA)
(Applicant Pusch, Martin )
Einflüsse von Makrozoobenthos auf Stofftransport und biogeochemische Prozesse in Seesedimenten
(Applicant Lewandowski, Jörg )
Einfluß des Crustaceenplanktons auf die Struktur des Bakterien- und Protozoenplanktons in mesotrophen Seeökosystemen
(Applicant Adrian, Ph.D., Rita )
Evolution von Geschlechtschromosomen, Geschlechtsbestimmungsystemen und Rekombination und ihre Bedeutung für Speziation und Schutz von Amphibien (Applicant Stöck, Matthias )
Facing multiple enemies: trade-offs between adaptive responses to predators and parasites in the context of inducible defences.
(Applicant Laforsch, Christian )
Factors controlling the release of dissolved organic substances, their stability and impact in methanogenic inundated fens soils
(Applicants Knorr, Klaus-Holger ; Zak, Dominik )
Forecasting Future Invasions and their Impacts (FFII) (Applicant Jeschke, Jonathan )
Host-parasite interactions in hybridizing Daphnia, from correlations to experiments (Applicant Wolinska, Justyna )
Host - parasite interactions in hybridizing Daphnia, the role of variable environments: part 2
(Applicant Wolinska, Justyna )
How to live in a mosaic of stressors - an ecological genomics approach on the water flea Daphnia
(Applicant Laforsch, Christian )
Influence of off-season reproduction on gamete and offspring quality in pike-perch (Sander lucioperca)
(Applicants Kloas, Werner ; Meyer, Stefan ; Schulz, Carsten )
Interactions of Flexible Aquatic Vegetation with Turbulent Flows in Rivers: field experiments and mathematical modeling with implications for transport and retention of organic matter and nutrients in fluvial ecosystems
(Applicant Suhodolova, Tatiana )
Kaskadeneffekte der top-down Steuerung über Chaoborus-Larven an der Schnittstelle: Fische - Zooplankton
(Applicant Walz, Norbert )
Lakes as components of the Tibetan Plateau climate system (LaTiCS): Internal mixing processes and lake-atmosphere interaction
(Applicant Kirillin, Georgiy )
Lakes at risk under climate change: Climate variability matters (Applicant Adrian, Ph.D., Rita )
Langzeitentwicklung von Seeökosystemen unterschiedlicher thermischer Struktur und Größe und deren Sensibilität gegenüber Klima und anthropogen bedingten Veränderungen
(Applicant Adrian, Ph.D., Rita )
Long-term effects of invasive species in novel communities: comparative analyses of population dynamics, and phenotypic and genetic changes
(Applicant Jeschke, Jonathan )
Mismatch between periphyton and macrophyte development in spring: crucial for submerged macrophyte recolonization in eutrophic shallow lakes?
(Applicant Hilt, Sabine )
Mortality of zooplankton in lake ecosystems and its contribution to vertical carbon fluxes (ZooFlux)
(Applicant Grossart, Hans-Peter )
Ökologie des Phytoplanktons im Bereich der Chemokline mesotropher Seen (Applicant Nicklisch, Andreas )
Personality-based individual differences in foraging efficiencies and metabolic rates and their consequences for predator-prey interactions.
(Applicant Kalinkat, Gregor )
Räumliche und zeitliche Variabilität trophischer Interaktionen juveniler Fische mit litoralen und pelagischen Zooplankton- und Benthongemeinschaften in
Abhängigkeit von der Besiedlung mit submersen Makrophyten im Müggelsee (Berlin)
(Applicant Mehner, Thomas )
RedoxPhos: How do physical and biogeochemical conditions in pelagic boundaries control vertical transport and generation of phosphorus species?
(Applicant Hupfer, Michael )
Red Queen dynamics in Daphnia, the role of variable environment (Applicant Wolinska, Justyna )
Regime shifts in lake ecosystems: Testing theory with long-term observational data and large scale experiments (LakeShift)
(Applicant Kirillin, Georgiy )
Rückhalt und Transformation von partikulären P-Spezies in Abhängigkeit der durch Makrophyten beeinflußten Resuspensions- und Sedimentationsbedingungen in einem Flachsee
(Applicant Hupfer, Michael )
Systematische Untersuchung der Retentionswirkung von Makrophyten durch Partikelsedimentation im strömenden Wasser
(Applicant Kozerski, Hans-Peter )
The Evolution of Virulence under Conditions of Frequent Multiple Infections (Applicant Wolinska, Justyna )
Transformation of organic carbon in the terrestrial-aquatic interface (Applicants Mutz, Michael ; Premke, Katrin )
Untersuchung der dreidimensionalen Zirkulationsströmung im Stechlinsee (Applicant Kirillin, Georgiy )
Untersuchungen zu Prozessen des Eintrages, Transportes und der Retention von Phosphor in kleinen Fließgewässern des Flachlandes
(Applicant Behrendt, Horst )
Untersuchungen zur endokrinologischen Regulation der Gonadenreifung von Zandern (Sander lucioperca) durch exogene Faktoren
(Applicant Schulz, Carsten )
Wärme- und Stofftransport in Seen unter saisonaler Eisdecke (Applicant Kirillin, Georgiy )
Water-ice heat exchange and ice-water boundary layer in freshwater lakes (Applicant Kirillin, Georgiy )
Wiederbesiedlung eines eutrophen Flachsees (Großer Müggelsee, Berlin) durch submerse Makrophyten und ihr Einfluß auf die litoral-pelagische Kopplung (Applicant Nicklisch, Andreas )
Priority Programmes Current projects
INAS: Interactive Argumentation Support for the Scientific Domain of Invasion Biology
(Applicants Heger, Tina ; König-Ries, Birgitta ; Zarrieß, Sina )
Completed projects
Climate induced changes in phenology of lake plankton communities: Implications for the match / mismatch of species interactions
(Applicant Adrian, Ph.D., Rita )
Climatic impact on temperature and mixing regime of polymictic lakes and its consequences for lake ecosystems
(Applicant Behrendt, Horst )
Red Queen Dynamics in Daphnia; Revealing the Evolutionary Change in a Parasite Population
(Applicant Wolinska, Justyna )
The impact of climate variability on recruitment, life history, and physiology of sympatric pairs of ciscoes (Teleostei: Coregonus spp.) in lakes
(Applicant Mehner, Thomas )
Research Fellowships Completed projects
Genetics of diapause termination timing in the water flea Daphnia - identifying genes and evolutionary processes of relevance in nature
(Applicant Czypionka, Till )
Invasive Arten: Worin unterscheiden sie sich von anderen Arten, und wie zuverlässig lassen sich ihre exotischen Verbreitungsgebiete vorhersagen?
(Applicant Jeschke, Jonathan )
Rekonstruktion mikroevolutionärer Veränderungen in einer natürlichen Zooplankton-Population in bezug auf anthropogen induzierte
Abundanzschwankungen von Räubern und Konkurrenten: Untersuchung einer Cladoceren-Genbank
(Applicant Mohr, Silvia )
Spatial and temporal variability of environmental flow indicators - developing the tools for an ecologically meaningful assessment of hydrological change
(Applicant Tetzlaff, Doerthe )
Research Units
Completed projects
The role of hybridization in the colonization of newly opened habitats (Applicant Wolinska, Justyna )
Heisenberg Professorships Completed projects
Novel species communities: formation, and ecological and evolutionary consequences
(Applicant Jeschke, Jonathan )
CRC/Transregios
Completed projects
Significance of physical and biological structures on C-transformation,
Caccumulation and microorganisms during initial succession in stream corridors (Project Heads Gessner, Mark ; Mutz, Michael )
TRR 38: Structures and Processes of the Initial Ecosystem Development Phase in an Artificial Water Catchment
(Spokesperson Hüttl, Reinhard F. )
Research data and software Completed projects
Database Infrastructure for Long-Term Data of German Lakes (Lake-Base) (Applicants Adrian, Ph.D., Rita ; Berendonk, Thomas U. ; Gaedke, Ursula ;
; ; )
König-Ries, Birgitta Rothhaupt, Karl-Otto Wagner, Annekatrin
Research Training Groups Current projects
GRK 2032: Urban Water Interfaces (UWI) (Spokesperson Hinkelmann, Reinhard )
GRK 2530: Biota-mediated effects on Carbon cycling in Estuaries (BiCEst) (Spokesperson Jensen, Kai )
Completed projects
GRK 780: Perspectives on Urban Ecology - the Example of the European Metropolis of Berlin
(Spokesperson Endlicher, Wilfried )
Collaborative Research Centres Current projects
SFB 1439: Multilevel response to stresser increase and release in stream ecosystems
(Spokesperson Sures, Bernd )
National Research Data Infrastructure Current projects
NFDI4BioDiversity – Biodiversity, Ecology & Environmental Data (Spokesperson Glöckner, Frank Oliver )
NFDI4Earth - NFDI Consortium Earth System Sciences (Spokesperson Bernard, Lars )
NFDI4Microbiota - National Research Data Infrastructure for Microbiota Research (Spokesperson Förstner, Konrad )
Abteilung 1: Ökohydrologie
Arbeitsgruppe Landschafts-Ökohydrologie
Arbeitsgruppe Lichtverschmutzung und Ökophysiologie
Abteilung 2: Ökosystemforschung
Abteilung 3: Experimentelle Limnologie
Abteilung 4: Biologie und Ökologie der Fische Arbeitsgruppe Fließgewässerrevitalisierung
Abteilung 5: Evolutionäre und Integrative Ökologie
Abteilung 6: Chemische Analytik und Biogeochemie Subinstitutions
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