Research for the Environment

Our research focuses on the ecological effects of toxicants on aquatic ecosystems. We investigate these effects in the ecological context considering environmental stressors, biological interactions, landscape characteristics, and climate change. This also includes studies on threats associated with invasive species and their control. The outcomes of our investigations on individuals, populations, and communities contribute to an understanding of ecosystem structure and functions as well as their disturbances.

This knowledge improves:

• ecological risk assessment of toxicants and ecological status monitoring considering long-term effects of low doses, recovery from stressors as well as geographical variability and climate change

Ecological assessment

• efficiency of an integrated mosquito management with the aim to reduce the risks of vector-borne diseases

Mosquito control

We provide solutions and tools for sustainable landscape management and decision making to tackle these issues, which are of major relevance for maintaining ecosystem goods and services and for health-related implications.