Institution
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
Recent research
- Climate & Environment
Evidence charts the future of freshwater biodiversity conservation
Evidence is essential for promoting freshwater conservation and selecting appropriate conservation actions. This article examines the importance of evidence for freshwater conservation, available sources, how evidence is used, geographical coverage, and the challenges in obtainin...
- Climate & Environment
Climate change will alter patterns of landscape water movement and resulting streamflow generation processes, as precipitation and evapotranspiration dynamics change. Given their altitude and latitude, Scottish Cairngorm rivers are amongst Europe’s most sensitive to such alterati...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract Zooplankton transfer substantial energy in aquatic food webs and are used as indicators of environmental change. Syntheses of zooplankton community dynamics globally require datasets that span a wide range of environmental gradients; however, these datasets are limited d...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
The value of electronic tagging and tracking studies for understanding fish–hypoxia interactions
Abstract Objective Hypoxia (i.e., low dissolved oxygen availability) is a natural phenomenon but can also be induced by human activities (e.g., nutrient enrichment from runoff). Given that dissolved oxygen is essential for aquatic life, periods of hypoxia tend to have negative co...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
A Scalable Open Source Workflow for Riverbed Substrate Classification Using UAV Imagery
Accurate characterization of riverbed substrate from remote sensing imagery is essential for applications in fluvial geomorphology, habitat modeling, and river management. While recent advances in computer vision, particularly deep learning, have improved sediment mapping capabil...