The value of aquatic ecosystem research for the sustainable use of water



As water is becoming one of the key resources in future, an improved understanding of aquatic ecosystem is an important aspect for the future development. In an article in the Austrian weekly magazine “Format” we presented our core topics in aquatic ecosystem research and highlighted examples how our research results are contributing to global and regional issues of concern and how they will provide also new insights in future.

(See full article in german language...."FORMAT" NÖ Extra of 20th April 2012)

  

TV program "Land und Leute" on April, 7 at 3:40 p.m.


HIGH QUALITY WATER AND FISH FROM PRE-ALPINE AUSTRIA

 

Supported by the provincial government of Lower Austria, we report about research on water quality and fish from aquaculture as well as rivers of pre-Alpine Austria. Our research clearly shows that cold pre-alpine water, rich in oxygen and low in nutrients provides an excellent basis for local aquaculture. Current research investigates how to maintain high quality of water and fish by partly replacing marine-based feeds with locally grown substitutes.

www.wcl.ac.at/uploads/video/heimische_gewaesser_top.mpg

Seminar Series

May 23rd 2012, 5 p.m.:
Katrin Teubner (Vienna University)
Small-scale phosphate point sources: An ecological perspective

Longterm ecological research

Lunz is a mastersite in the LTSER platform Eisenwurzen.
We are member of GLEON and study Lake Lunz as a permanent study site

Selected DATA of Lake Lunz

WasserCluster Lunz

WasserCluster Lunz was founded in 2005 with the primary motivation to follow the scientific legacy of the Biological Station Lunz, which was established in 1905 (owned by the Austrian Academy of Sciences) and closed in 2003. The Biological Station Lunz was well known for its outstanding research in limnology (e.g., Franz Ruttner's »Fundamentals of Limnology« 1953) throughout the 20th century. WCL was established to reinvigorate freshwater ecosystem research and education in Lunz and to contribute to the advancement of freshwater sciences.

WCL is a nonprofit research center shared to equal amounts by the University of Vienna, the Danube University Krems, and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU Vienna). WCL is financially supported by a partnership with the Provincial Government of Lower Austria, the Federal Government of Austria, and the Municipality of Vienna. At BOKU, WCL is linked to the Department of Water, Atmosphere and Environment, at the University of Vienna to the Department of Limnology, and at the Danube University Krems to the Department of Clinical Medicine and Biotechnology.