Projects

Sustainable management and ecological engineering:

• Carbon sequestration, biodiversity and social structures in Southern Amazonia: models and implementation of carbon-optimized land management strategies (CarBioCial)” www.carbiocial.de financed by BMBF (Germany) and CNPq (Brazil)
• PhD Thesis Aude Zingraff-Hamed (TUM Munich, co-supervised with Stephan Pauleit): Restoration and use of urban rivers
• PhD Thesis Luisa Ricaurte (ETH Zurich, co-supervised with Jukka Jokkela): Ecology and Sustainable Management of Wetlands in the Colombian Piedmont region
• Sustainable Management Concept for Stream Catchments in the Cerrado and for the Pantanal of Mato Grosso, Brazil (concluded, see publications)
• Artificial wetlands to reduce diffuse nutrient inputs into the Loire Catchment (under review)

Functional ecology of freshwater ecosystems and their aquatic-terrestrial transition zones:

• PhD Thesis Miguel Saigo (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Sta Fé, Argentina, co-supervised with Mercedes Marchese): Stable isotope analysis of aquatic-terrestrial interactions in the Paraná River, Argentina
• PhD Thesis Luisa Vega (Universität Konstanz, Germany, co-supervised with Karl-Otto Rothhaupt): Ecology of shallow water bodies in neotropical floodplains: role of aquatic macrophytes in carbon cycle of the Pantanal (Brazil) and Casanaré (Colombia)
• INAU project on stable isotope ecology analysis of aquatic-terrestrial interactions in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso (Partner: Roberto Silveira, Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil) financed by CNPq (Brazil)
• several concluded projects, see publications

Organic matter processing:

• WW-DECOEX (world-wide leaf litter decomposition experiment in streams, DFG) concluded, see publications
• Organic matter processing in Lake Constance (DFG-SFB): concluded, see publications
• PhD Thesis Guillermo Rueda-Delgado: Organic matter processing in Neotropical Streams: concluded, see publications

Invasive species:

• SIAL (Stable isotope Analysis Loire): study on the impact of the invasive clam Corbicula spp. on the foodweb of the Loire river, financed by EPL and Agence de l'eau Loire-Bretagne (France)
• PhD Thesis John Hesselschwerdt: Impacts of invasive amphipods on the local fauna and on leaf litter decomposition in the littoral zone of Lake Constance: concluded, see publications

Biodiversity and Conservation:

• OBLA (Observatoire de la biodiversité ligérienne) - assessment of the biodiversity of the Loire river, databank development, financed by the CNRS (France)
• PhD Thesis of Clemence Chaudron on the importance of roadside vegetation strips for biodiversity
• ABLA (Aquatic Biodiversity in Latin America) book series (http://www. pensoft.net/series.php?ser=729), so far 7 volumes, further books in preparation
• Margaritifera auricularia project, in statu nascendi