Martin Kainz

Neujahrsgruß von Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2026 Dirigent Yannick Nézet-Séguin sprach über Zusammenhalt in der Gesellschaft und die Bedeutung von Musik.

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Today’s New Year concert in Vienna was conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin from Montréal, linking his mentalité chaleureuse, sa grande connaissance musicale with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. And he made a point I hope will come true in 2026.

A global estimator of C and N isotope baselines for fresh waters Baselines are the pebbles in the shoes of isotope ecologists. The extreme variability of the isotope composition of resources at the base of food webs governs the spatial differences of consumers'...

hot off the press! Led by the mighty Marie Perga, including many members of the Fooδ-webs team, and kindly funded by the Foundation for Research on Biodiversity/CESAB

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Shifts in Assembly Rules and Loss of Zooplankton Functional Diversity Across Hypereutrophic Fishponds Functional diversity of zooplankton declined sharply with increasing eutrophication in hypereutrophic fishponds, despite stable species richness. Community assembly shifted from competition to habita...

A new paper led by Cihelio A. Amorim on fishpond biodiversity: Eutrophic fishponds contain up to 3-times higher plankton species richness than mountain lakes.
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Interested in pursuing your PhD-research on freshwater pond food webs? Knowing that there are >300 million ponds worldwide, this research may be of interest: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/55211...

The UNESCO Venice office organized a panel today about the “role of Science Diplomacy in Water Supplies” to find effective ways to improve water management and science in Europe.