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

9901214亚当斯这个奖项支持迈克尔亚当斯和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的研究生与H。德国汉堡大学水生生物学和渔业科学研究所的Kausch说。这项研究将集中于自德国统一以来易北河的生态变化。 德国东部正在发生的巨大变化（统一后的工业发展）对该地区的主要河流易北河产生了重要影响。 研究的第二个组成部分将是研究前东德国靠近德绍的易北河延伸段的河流洪泛平原森林生态。 该地区的洪泛平原包含了最重要的和保存完好的残余古老洪泛平原森林在中欧。 德国合作伙伴的合作对于数据的收集和解释是必不可少的。 这项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.