Research Projects

Facility Weihenstephan

1. Habitat requirements and threat factors of native freshwater mussels.
2. Genetic characterization and analysis of habitat requirements of the Unionid mussels painter´s mussel and freshwater pearl mussel.
3. Assessment of interactions between larvae of native and invasive pondmussels and their respective host fishes.
4. Effects of flame retardants on neuronal development in the zebrafish model.
5. Assessment of habitat improving methods to protect fish populations.
6. Fish ecological monitoring at conventional, improved and innovative hydropower-plants.
7. Hydroacoustic assessment of fish behavior at innovative hydropower-plants.
8. Assessment of fish injuries at pumping stations.
   Causes for the decline in Bavarian fish populations.
9. MiPaq - Microparticles in the aquatic environment
10. SubµTrack - Tracking of (sub)microplastics with different identity

Facility Iffeldorf

1. Changes in littoral light conditions due to climatically-influenced flood events and their impacts on macrophytes.
2. LakeSat - Satellite data as an assessment tool of inland waters.
3. Reed decline in Bavarian lakes as a consequence of global change - monitoring by modern remote sensing methods.
4. Lakes as carbon sink - do calcifying algae Phacotus lenticularis sequester climatically-significant C02 in lake sediments?
5. Shifts in primary producer composition in mountain lakes as an indicator of global climate change.
6. IMOTOX - Identification and monitoring of toxic cyanobacteria.
7. Picocyanobacteria as water quality bioindicators.
8. Impact of global climatic change on the distribution of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae).