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viadonau shares exciting updates on restoration at Donau-Auen National Park!
 
Our research group investigates how spatial and long-term stressors affect biogeochemical processes and biodiversity in rivers and wetlands, integrating socio-ecological aspects and aquatic ecosystem management. In collaboration with viadonau, we have revealed the response of macrozoobenthos species, showing the effect of ‚rheophilization‘ and improved connectivity since the reconnection of the Johler Arm in 2015.
 
The DANSER project is officially underway!
 
Focused on sediment restoration and sustainable sediment management across the Danube, DANSER aims to develop and scale innovative solutions. Our colleague Ronald Pöppl presents our role at the Upper Danube Demosite for the DANSER project.

A new addition to the team

The BIGER team is delighted to announce our newest team member: Dr Daniel Hayes. He is an expert in freshwater ecology, ecohydrology, ecohydraulics, multiple stressors, river management, biodiversity and ecosystem restoration. We are looking forward to working with him. Welcome Daniel!

Diving into the Danube to bridge Art and Science

Carlos Monleon-Gendall, Artist in Residence of one of the „S+T+ARTS4Water“ projects hosted by the Klima Biennale, was invited to participate in the last sampling campaign of the year, investigating the fish fauna of the Danube River. The artist had a great opportunity to join our CDL MERI team analysing the fish community of different Danube habitats by electro-fishing. Each of us had a wonderful opportunity to be inspired. The bridging of art and science will contribute to more understanding of human interventions and climate change on aquatic habitats to the attention of a wider audience and will be presented in 2025 and during the Klima Biennale 2026.

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New Scientific paper

A new Open Access article was recently published in Science of the Total Environment: The effect of ship-induced wave trains on periphytic algal communities in the littoral zone of a large regulated river (River Danube, Austria), by Elisabeth Bondar-Kunze, Anna-Lisa Dittrich, Philipp Gmeiner, Marcel Liedermann, Thomas Hein

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