The 27th edition of our institute's biannual newsletter has been published.
Elmira Akbari successfully defended her PhD thesis 'Effects of particulate organic carbon supply on microbial nutrient uptake in streams under agricultural land use pressure' on 13 December. Her supervisor was Gabriele Weigelhofer. Congratulations to her!
Carina Leimhofer successfully defended her Master's thesis at the University of Vienna on December 13, 2024. Her research on 'Effects of Salinization on Freshwater Phytoplankton and Invasion by Prymnesium parvum' was supervised by Robert Ptacnik. Congratulations!
WasserCluster Lunz - Biologische Station GmbH is looking for a Group Leader for Molecular Ecology of Aquatic Ecosystems
With the co-authorship of Margaux Mathieu-Resuge and Martin Kainz, a publication was featured for the first time with an affiliation to WasserCluster Lunz in the renowed journal Science (386th issue of Science on October 18, 2024):
J. Ryan Shipley, Rebecca Oester, Margaux Mathieu-Resuge, et. al: Consumer biodiversity increases organic nutrient availability across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. doi: 10.1126/science.adp6198
After more than a year of seasonal sampling at six European coastal wetlands, a data workshop for the RESTORE4Cs project was held at WCL. Eighteen participants involved in fieldwork or data collection discussed possibilities for publishing the collected data.
In collaboration with BOKU, members of the SciFish group have just launched a new study investigating the behavior and ecology of fish as part of the 4FatQs project. The study uses a method of radio telemetry to locate preferred habitats and movements of fish. The researchers tagged 60 adult trout in the River Ois with electronic transmitters (the size of the fish ranged from 200 to 880 g). The researchers will track the movements of the fish every week for the next 8 months until June/July 2025. The study's results will help us better understand how native brown trout and non-native rainbow trout move between different habitats during and outside their spawning season. We will also improve our knowledge of how climate change may affect interactions between native and non-native species. Stay tuned for more information from this study.
PhD candidate Mourine Yegon received the award for the best poster presentation at this year's SIL-Austria Meeting (October 2-4, 24). Congratulations!