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Aquatic ecology, Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE)
The workgroup Aquatic Ecology at the University
of Duisburg/Essen (UDE) is part of the Water Science research cluster
(covering water chemistry, hydraulic engineering, hydrology and ecology) at the
UDE and employs around 25 scientists (full professor, post-docs, PhD students, scientists).
The group around Prof. Daniel Hering covers expertise including river assessment and
restoration, ecotoxicology, climate change impacts on freshwater ecosystems and
aquatic parasitology. It has played a key role in the Europe-wide development
of WFD-compliant assessment systems for rivers, particularly in the projects
AQEM and STAR, and in their national implementation. Recently, the group established
a research focus on river restoration and its impacts on hydromorphology and
biota.
Prof. D. Hering and his team have participated in several projects on biodiversity (e.g. RUBICODE,
leading the workpackage on indicators) and on climate change impact
(EURO-LIMPACS, co-leading the workpackage on climate-hydromorphology
interactions and leading the workpackage on indicators).
The workgroup was coordinating
the EU funded project WISER on WFD implementation.
Several national projects on
river typology, restoration, and assessment systems for rivers with various
BQEs are coordinated by team of Prof. D. Hering. Finally, the trait database
www.freshwaterecology.info was developed together with BOKU.
Daniel Hering
Daniel Hering (Professor, PhD, m) is Professor at UDE and coordinator of several national and international projects on WFD implementation and river restoration. He has expertise in aquatic-land interactions, assessment systems, and river restoration. He was responsible for the development of the AQEM assessment system, which assesses the ecological status of rivers by their invertebrate fauna and for several national adaptations of the system.
As a member of the Executive Committee of EURO-LIMPACS he organized the development of a Europe-wide trait database for macroinvertebrates, diatoms and fish (www.freshwaterecology.info). Together with Dr. Christian Feld he has coordinated the EU-funded project WISER.
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Publications (UDE website)
Armin Lorenz
Armin Lorenz (PhD, m) has expertise on taxonomic and ecological databases, river assessment and restoration and has taxonomic expertise on Plecoptera. He is responsible for the databases of the German national river assessment system PERLODES and (together with BOKU) for the maintenance and extension of www.freshwaterecology.info.
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Publications (UDE website)
Christian K. Feld
Christian K. Feld (PhD, m) has expertise in river assessment, multivariate statistics, hydromorphology, and the analysis of biodiversity patterns. He was coordinator of several national and INTERREG projects and workpackage leader in the FP6 Coordination Action RUBICODE. Together with Daniel Hering, he was coordinating the EU-funded project WISER. Due to the latter obligation he will contribute to BIOFRESH mainly in years 3 and 4.
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Publications (UDE website)
Jörg Strackbein
Jörg Strackbein (scientist, m) has expertise in multiple IT fields. He is involved in several research projects of the working group and responsible for technical aspects of databases, websites, intranet management and also for publication of dissemination materials, graphics and layout aspects.
He is the webmaster of the BioFresh website.
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