Because water flows downhill, streams reflect actions in their watersheds. My research group uses both experimental and epidemiological approaches to identify stressors such as land use, thermal regimes, and chemicals that trigger ecological thresholds causing aquatic biota to fundamentally change composition to alternative states. Aquatic communities can show dramatic responses to even small amounts of land use change, with some taxa disappearing from watersheds entirely. Within the context of global change, up to 50% of aquatic biodiversity may be lost from some watersheds. Threshold values for a given stressor can differ between adjacent physiographic regions, but once degradation occurs our research suggests that ecological condition may be difficult, if not impossible, to restore.
Fr. 20.10.2023 Forum Waldkontroversen |
BayCEER-Kolloquium: |
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Do. 19.10.2023 Global change mycology: Towards understanding the role of climate for fruit body-forming fungal communities |
Dialog: |
Fr. 06.10.2023 Forum Zukunftswald: Biotope im Wald für seltene und bedrohte Arten |
Ökologisch-Botanischer Garten: |
So. 15.10.2023 Führung | "Den ÖBG kennenlernen: Allgemeine Gartenführung" |
Vortragsreihe "Die dünne Haut der Erde": |
Mi. 11.10.2023 Mikroorganismen im Boden – Abbau von Mikroplastik und anderen Bodenverschmutzungen |