Activities/Thematic Focus

• Integrated nature conservation for waterbodies (including groundwater)
• Conservation-focused contributions towards implementing the EU Water Framework Directive
• Nature conservation on national waterways
• Sustainable river flood protection
• Analysing and assessing land use impacts on and beside waterbodies
• Promoting renaturalisation processes and their scientific foundations
• Sustainable use and protection of limnic fish species and their habitats
• Analysing the endangered status of limnic fish species and limnic invertebrates
• Ecology of communities in waterbodies and floodplains