U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: Restoration Ecology of the Elbe River and Its Floodplain Forests

9901214Adams该奖项支持来自威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的Michael Adams和一名研究生与德国汉堡大学水生生物学和渔业科学研究所的H. Kausch的合作。研究将集中在德国统一后易北河的生态变化上。德国东部正在发生的巨大变化（统一后时代的工业发展）正在对该地区的主要河流易北河产生重要影响。研究的第二个组成部分将是研究前东德德绍附近易北河河段的河漫滩森林生态。这片漫滩地区拥有中欧最重要、保存最完好的原始漫滩森林遗迹。德国伙伴的合作对数据的收集和解释是不可或缺的。该研究将成为研究生博士论文的主题。

9901214AdamsThis award supports Michael Adams and a graduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in a collaboration with H. Kausch of the Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Sciences at the University of Hamburg, Germany. The research will focus on ecological changes in the river Elbe since the reunification of Germany. The dramatic, on-going changes in eastern Germany (industrial development in the post-reunification era) are having important effects on the Elbe River, the major river of the region. A second component of the research will be to study the river floodplain forest ecology in the stretches of the Elbe near Dessau in the former East Germany. That region of the floodplain contains the most important and well-preserved remnant of old-growth floodplain forests in central Europe. The collaboration of the German partners is indispensable to the collection and interpretation of the data. The research will be the subject of the graduate student's doctoral dissertation.