Department Aquatic Ecology

Aquatic Ecology

Eawag’s Department of Aquatic Ecology is currently home for eight research groups that cover the broad disciplines of ecology and evolution from the individual to the community and ecosystem level, utilizing a wide range of tools and techniques from microscopes to molecular genetics. Read more

News

March 14, 2024 –

Communities in water and on land are responding similarly to climate change. One surprising exception may be the plankton.

Communities in water and on land are responding similarly to climate change. One surprising exception may be the plankton.

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Publications

Brantschen, J., & Altermatt, F. (2024). Contrasting strengths of eDNA and electrofishing compared to historic records for assessing fish community diversity and composition. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 81(2), 178-189. doi:10.1139/cjfas-2023-0053, Institutional Repository
Colls, M., Viza, A., Zufiarre, A., Camacho-Santamans, A., Laini, A., González-Ferreras, A. M., … Romero, F. (2024). Impacts of diffuse urban stressors on stream benthic communities and ecosystem functioning: a review. Limnetica, 43(1), 89-108. doi:10.23818/limn.43.07, Institutional Repository
Daugaard, U., Merkli, S., Merz, E., Pomati, F., & Petchey, O. L. (2024). The dependence of forecasts on sampling frequency as a guide to optimizing monitoring in community ecology. Ecosphere, 15(2), e4786 (14 pp.). doi:10.1002/ecs2.4786, Institutional Repository
Gimmi, E., & Vorburger, C. (2024). High specificity of symbiont-conferred resistance in an aphid-parasitoid field community. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 37(2), 162-170. doi:10.1093/jeb/voad013, Institutional Repository

Eco Events

27.03.​2024,
10.04.​2024,
3.30 pm
On-site at Eawag Dübendorf, FC D24 & Hybrid on Zoom

SNSF Starting Grants/Ambizione Fellowships

Research Projects

A multi phase research program by Eawag and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
Together with climate change, biodiversity loss is the most pressing environmental crisis of our time. The "Translational Centre Biodiversity Conservation" bundles knowledge and makes it generally available. In collaboration with key Swiss stakeholders, the Centre identifies topics for knowledge exchange, translation, and synthesis, and communicates and distributes the resulting synthesis products.
A project for the development of a quagga mussel monitoring concept mussel monitoring concept and the support of preventative and protective measures in Switzerland.
Functional characterization of isopod-microbe symbiosis
The architecture of community structure, functional traits and trophic networks across blue-green ecosystems
New tools to monitor changes in ecosystem conditions and to quantify genetic changes of populations in (semi-)natural environments to predict how human mediated environmental change will influence stability and resilience of ecosystems.
Understanding and measuring how flow intermittency drives biodiversity and river functions in an alpine environment
An Eawag-WSL collaboration focusing on Biodiversity at the interface of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.