Exciting new article out on fish responses to connectivity! Dive into how connectivity influences fish communities and their traits 🐟 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The artist in residence within starts.eu/carlos-monleon…, Carlos Monleon-Gendall with the Local Expert Group of biennale.wien, visited experts from IHG, BOKU to discuss inputs for the project “Parliaments of Streams” BOKU University CDL MERI

The artist in residence (starts.eu/carlos-monleon…), Carlos Monleon-Gendall with the Local Expert Group of biennale.wien, visited our experts from IHG, BOKU to discuss inputs for the project “Parliaments of Streams” VERBUND AG viadonau & Österr. Bundesforste BOKU_IHG

🌊 Die Doktoratsschule Human River Systems in the 21st Century an der BOKU erforscht Flusssysteme & entwickelt innovative Lösungen gegen Extremwetterereignisse. Interdisziplinär & zukunftsweisend! ℹ️:short.boku.ac.at/5vx5d80 hr21.boku.ac.at

Check out our latest article on using multilayer networks to quantify habitat connectivity changes in a floodplain! Congrats to Sonia, Thomas, and Andrea! Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Excited to highlight another publication from my collaboration with Sonia Recinos Brizuela BIGERScience . This is a really interesting application of multilayer networks in landscape ecology. Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

On Nov 22, 2024, the ÖK-IAD "Young Danube Research" event brought together 19 PhD students from 8 countries, including 5 from the Meri project, to pitch their research. oek-iad.boku.ac.at VERBUND AG viadonau & Österr. Bundesforste BOKU_IHG

Check our interesting paper in Science of the Total Environment! 🎉 Congrats to Elisabeth Bondar-Kunze, Anna-Lisa Dittrich, and Thomas Hein for exploring ship-induced wave trains on periphytic algae in the Danube River. 🚢🌊👏 doi.org/10.1016/j.scit…

Ending the year on a high note! 🎉 Huge thanks to our team and collaborators for an incredible year of hard work and success. Wishing everyone happy holidays and a fantastic New Year ahead! 🥂✨

We published exciting papers on aquatic ecosystems this year! 💧 Highlights include studies on aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity. See part of them here: doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1… doi.org/10.1016/j.scit… doi.org/10.1016/j.jenv… doi.org/10.1371/journa… doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13…

What a productive year! Follow some of the papers published this year here: doi.org/10.1002/eco.26… doi.org/10.1016/j.ecol… doi.org/10.1007/s10980… doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.… doi.org/10.1016/j.enva… doi.org/10.1021/acs.es… doi.org/10.1016/j.scit… doi.org/10.1016/j.marp…

Further research results from Risper Ondiek are available on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/38… BOKU_IHG #HR21_BOKU

🌊 Freeze-Core Sampling: Tracking River Restoration Success! We are investigating the ecological impact of reconnecting the Johler side arm to the Danube with Freeze-Core sampling to analyze long-term biodiversity changes of sediments. (1/3) 📸 © Baumgartner

Exciting news! Please join us in congratulating Sonia Brizuela on becoming the newest doctor on our team! She successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Network models to study connectivity in floodplains". An outstanding achievement! #iconn.network Sonia Recinos Brizuela

We end this week with more exciting news! Peter Bader successfully defended his master research on eDNA analyses on amphibian metacommunities in floodplains. This research explored innovative methods in dynamic ecosystems. Congratulations 🎉💧🐸🏞️

Congrats to Johannes Schützenhofer & Massimiliano Sigfrido Grisorio on successfully completing their bachelor’s thesis! Supervised by Johannes Kowal & Thomas Hein, their research explores barriers & fish migration aids in the Austrian Danube system over time 🐟🌊

Exciting news! We started this week with a new paper out dealing with the effect of hydropower dams on river connectivity in the Nile River Basin. Congratulations Anthony Basooma and co-authors 🎉 doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Do not miss our upcoming #SUSHP2025!

Anthony Basooma attended the AquaINFRA project workshop at Oulu University Finland Focusing on open-access datasets like Hydrography90m, WORLDCLIM, GBIF, and FishBase in addressing threats to freshwater biodiversity #Biodiversity #AquaINFRA #OpenScience #FreshwaterEcology #IHG