Recent Topics of Aquatic Research

The research areas of the institute cover a broad spectrum of classical and modern limnological topics, starting from the limnology of streams, rivers, reservoirs and lakes up to persistence and distribution of antiobiotic resistance genes in the environment or the influence of climate change and of micro-pollutants on drinking water resources.

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Overview

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Professorship Limnology (Aquatic Ecology)

Research topics of the work group are biodiversity in aquatic systems, ecology and evolution of organisms, effects of anthropogenic stressors, and causal interrelationships between organisms and ecosystem functions.

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Joint professorship of TUD & UFZ - Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis and Management

In teaching and research the institute has an intensive cooperation to the professorship of aquatic ecosystem analysis and management (Prof. Dr. D. Borchardt).

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Joint professorship of TUD & UFZ - Applied Stream Ecology

In teaching and research the institute has an intensive cooperation to the professorship of applied stream ecology (Prof. Dr. M. Weitere).

Overview Research Areas

The research fields of the institute covers the most recent topics of aquatic science. From classical limnology of lakes and rivers over highly topical research like antibiotic resistance or pollution of drinking water sources due to anthropogenic impacts towards integrated analysis of aquatic ecosystems. Depending on the respective professorships different focuses on theses topics are set.

The workgroup of Professor Thomas Berendonk investigates different aspects of aquatic communities and their relation to the abiotic environment. The inclusion of recent topics like climate change, antibiotic resistance, loss of biodiversity or the various anthropogenic stressors builds a bridge between classical limnology and applied limnology. Read more about our research areas.

Professor Markus Weiteres workgroup focusses on different aspects of flowing waters and aim on a sound understanding of the processes within the ecosystem in order to derive general mechanisms for action and management options. The professorship is one of the joint professorships of the Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research.

The second joint professorships belongs to Professor Dietrich Borchardt and works on integrated analysis of aquatic ecosystems. They investigate the behaviour of aquatic ecosystems in relation to natural dynamics and anthropogenic influence on drainage basin scale. Further information about the topics of this workgroup can be found here.