Current PhD projects

Dakeishla Diaz-Morales
BIOMOD: How bioinvasions and parasites modulate the effects of climate change on benthic communities.

Annemie Doliwa
Identifing protistan parasite communities to estimate the degradation and recovery of rivers under the analyzed stressors

Katrin Honka
Influence of Pomphorhynchus sp. and Anguillicola crassus on physiological parameters of the European and Japanese eel

Nele Markert
Multivariate analysis of the effects of chemical pollution and further stressors on aquatic organisms

Martin Palt
Optimising the configuration of woody riparian buffer strips along rivers to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services

Katharina Rettig
Utility of Bayesian Belief Networks in assessment and management of aquatic ecosystems

Svenja Pfeifer
Temporal and spatial effects of stressors, biotic interactions and dispersal on riverine benthic invertebrate community variability

Sara Schloemer
The influence of the european beaver (Castor fiber) on habitats and the invertebrate fauna of streams of the lower mountain area and their meadows

Heiko Schmidt
Development of a scenario-based prognosis tool to estimate the success of renaturation (SPARE)

Esther Smollich
Ecotoxicological effects of polymeric and monomeric brominated flame retardants and their degradation products

Franziska Struller
The influence of lateral connectivity on species assemblage and dispersion patterns of ground beetles in floodplains

Dominik Reiner
Delineating multiple stressor-response relationships at the individual level:
A mechanistic modelling approach

Nazmun Nahar
Ecotoxicological evaluation of micropollutants and their possible transformation products