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Actual projectsProjekt Partner im EU AQUACOSM Projekt (Netzwerk von Mesokosmenanlagen, https://www.aquacosm.eu/mesocosm/artificial-stream-and-pond-system-fsa/, 2017-2020)AQUACOSM Project InPaSa: Investigation of passive sampling performance for monitoring of persistent organic contaminants in small water bodies (Dr. Y. Vystavna, Biology Center CAS, Institute of Hydrobiology, České Budějovice, Czec... read more

2019Gergs, R., Gemmer, I., Koester, M,. Rothhaupt, K. O., Behrmann-Godel, J.: No evidence for a genetic impoverishment of the indigenous amphipod Gammarus roeselii (Gervais, 1835) due to the invasion of Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894) in Lake Constance. In: Hydrobiologia (2019). https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-018-3831-52018Ranke, J., Wöltjen, J., Meinecke, S.: Comparison of software to... read more

The artificial stream and pond system (“Fließ- und Stillgewässer-Simulationsanlage” – FSA) of the German Federal Environment Agency’s field station in Berlin-Marienfelde is one of the largest and most modern mesocosm systems in the world. read more

Pigment analyses of aufwuchs (biological surface film) in stagnant water mesocosms under the effect of the anti-fouling agent Irgarol®Irgarol® is in the group of s-triazines and a biocidal agent which is used as an anti-fouling coating for marine vessels to prevent the attachment of algae and organisms on their hulls. Irgarol inhibits photosynthesis and is highly toxic for higher plants, algae and... read more

The following is a collection of the projects undertaken. You find the publications that published, provided that they are not directly linked, in the below list. read more

Öffentliche Besichtigungen der FSA für Gruppen sind möglich. Bitte setzen sie sich mit unserem Sekretariat zwecks Terminabsprache in Verbindung.Eine Besichtigung der FSA ist für Gruppen ab 5 Personen nach Anmeldung möglich.StandardprogrammKurzvortrag und Besichtigung: Dauer ca. 90 min.Ergänzende Fachvorträge zu Projektthemen sind auf Wunsch möglich.Publikationen zur FSA, sofern nicht unter Publika... read more

Retention of substances (sediments, nutrients, pollutants) in river flood meadowsIn 2002 and 2003, a working group of the Institute for Geographical Sciences at the Free University (FU) Berlin carried out a study on matter retention in river flood meadows. The background for this study was the renaturation of rivers and river flood meadows, something, which has become very topical following the re... read more

Behaviour of volatile substances in flowing watersAfter being discharged into runoff ditches, organic chemicals are subjected, in manifold processes, to transformation, enrichment and elimination. Volatilisation from the water body is one of the major elimination processes by which specific chemicals are irreversibly removed from aquatic ecosystems. Studies have shown that quantification of volati... read more