Tag Archives: aquatic ecosystem

PhD Position on Polymer Biodegradation and Extracellular Enzymes in Aquatic Environments

Are you passionate about conducting fundamental research that creates an impact on
sustainability? The Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna is offering a PhD position to explore the role of extracellular enzymes in the biodegradation of water-soluble polymers in aquatic environments.

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AMEO experience – nEcoTox, Germany – Veronica Rodriguez and Lorenz Witt (2023)

In this blogpost, Veronica Rodriguez and Lorenz Witt share their internship experience at nEcoTox, Germany. Students of the  Environmental Pollution Management (Ecotoxicology)  Program complete an 8-week internship each year, the so-called “AMEO”. The AMEO is performed either at an external university, governmental or industrial research institute  where students learn to apply the competences achieved during their study. Students also use this opportunity to travel and explore Germany. 

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Does global warming lead to taxonomical and functional reorganization of insect communities in European rivers?

In this blogpost, Dr. Alessandro Manfrin, postdoc of the DFG RTG SystemLink,  talks about his recent study published “Taxonomic and functional reorganization in Central European stream macroinvertebrate communities over 25 years”. Here they observed that because of increasing temperatures, species that favour cold waters are progressively replaced by those that favour warm temperatures leading to functional alterations of the community.

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