Research Activities:

Research assistant in the project "Promotion of Insects in Agricultural Landscapes through Integrated Cultivation Systems with Renewable Resources - FInAL", Subproject Aquatic Insects

• Surveys on the diversity and composition of insect fauna
  
  • Sampling of small water bodies in landscape laboratories of the project with regard to the diversity of invertebrate organisms
  • Effects of different land use and cultivation systems and factors on the structure and function of water bodies

• Determination of secondary production in water bodies as proxy for the functionality of insects on different spatial scales (habitat, water bodies, landscape)
  
  • Research on the insect fauna in small water bodies of the landscape laboratories as well as on C- and N-substance fluxes

• Development of scenarios and strategies for the promotion of insects at landscape level
  
  • Identification of indicator species to derive a good ecological status and to monitor the success of the implemented strategies