Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

How will climate change alter the phenology, biomass, and nutritional quality of cross-ecosystem fluxes?

Nutritional phenology with climate change

Simulating the roles of dispersal, thermal tolerance, and adaptive potential in tropical reef fish responses to climate change

simulating tropical fish biodiversity

Coral adaptation to the future climates

simulating response of red sea coral species to rising temperatures

In this large-scale study we investigate the effects of climate change on fish movement patterns in the Swiss Rhine-Aare River network

Climate change and fish movement patterns

Establishing a framework for conservation genomics of freshwater biodiversity

Conservation genomics of freshwater biodiversity

Fish species from Aare catchment (Foto: Bárbara B. Calegari)

We study the biodiversity of Swiss freshwaters and design data-driven conservation strategies that take climate change and human impacts into account.

Preventing the loss of freshwater biodiversity under climate change

We investigate the mechanisms of speciation and adaptive radiation

Speciation and adaptive radiation

We work to combat what we consider the largest stumbling block on the way to successful biodiversity management and conservation in aquatic ecosystems: the lack of quantitative baseline data

Conservation Biology

Almost two-thirds of the native fish species of Switzerland are threatened by extinction. To preserve or specifically enhance aquatic biodiversity and habitats ...

Projet Lac - on track of the fish in our lakes

This project contributes to the Blue Green Biodiversity Research Initiative

Biodiversity assembly in blue and green ecosystems

Genome evolution and genomic divergence across the Swiss Alpine whitefish radiation

Speciation Genomics of Alpine Whitefish

Population genomics following experimental host parasite evolution of Chlorella algae and viruses

Genomics of Rapid Adaptation

Investigating the interactions between migration ecology, local adaptation and diversification

Charr migration

Watercourses are among earth's most biodiverse ecosystems. However, they are also under severe pressure from construction work and hydropower generation, among other things.

Swiss Competence Centre for Energy Research - Supply of Energy

Do fish and invertebrates like the Rolling Stones?

Riverscape – Sediment dynamics and connectivity

Understand the mechanisms how adaptive evolution shapes reciprocal interactions between organisms and their environment, leading to either new opportunities or new constraints for further adaptation.

Feedbacks between ecosystem dynamics and genomics

New tools to monitor changes in ecosystem conditions and to quantify genetic changes of populations in (semi-)natural environments to predict how human mediated environmental change will influence stability and resilience of ecosystems.