Biodiversity
Evolutionary physiology and adaptation in the moor frog
Research
Eawag
Natural environments vary in space and time and are now drastically changing due to human activities. Environmental changes, like increasing acidity in a pond, can strongly affect the long-term prospects of species. Katja Räsänen from Eawag’s department Aquatic Ecology aims to understand how natural populations of the moor frog adapt to environmental change.
Aquascope: shedding light on underwater life
Research
Eawag
Since spring 2018, the newly developed underwater camera Aquascope has been recording a wide variety of plankton species in Lake Greifen. These sensitive organisms can thus, for the first time, be observed undisturbed in their natural habitat – an important step towards automated monitoring of water quality and aquatic biodiversity.
On the trail of symbiont diversity
Research
Eawag
If one observes the competition between parasites and symbionts, much can be learned about the theory of evolution. Two Eawag researchers have thus shown in a new study that high parasite diversity promotes symbiont diversity.
The health of ecosystems based on the ground beetle
Research
EPFL
EPFL scientists just published an open tool for predicting the dynamics of ground beetle populations – important bioindicators for sustainable park management and for monitoring ecosystems – in Italy’s Gran Paradiso National Park. The tool incorporates satellite and other remote sensing data.
The next pandemic is coming, it’s time to take the ecological crisis seriously
Politics
Eawag
126 Swiss researchers, including 6 from Eawag, want to draw the attention their Swiss compatriots to the scientific evidence showing the link between the emergence of pandemics and human disturbance of the natural environment.
“We need to study biodiversity in a more holistic way”
Research
Eawag WSL
To mark this year’s International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May, professor Catherine Graham and professor Florian Altermatt explain in an interview why it is important in biodiversity research to look beyond systemic boundaries. The two scientists lead the joint research initiative “Blue-Green Biodiversity” between WSL and Eawag.
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