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Sino-German Cooperative Project Carries on in Poyang Lake Region
A research team consisting of researchers from both China and Germany headed to Changjiang River, a tributary of Poyang Lake which is located in Jiangxi Province, for a one-month field sampling for the Sino-German cooperative project “Integrated modelling of the response of aquatic ecosystems to land use and climate change in the Poyang Lake region, China” on Oct. 5. The German researchers are Dr. Britta Schmalz and SONG Song, a doctoral student studying under the supervion of Prof. Nicola Fohrer from Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Dr. Sonja J？hnig and her doctoral student Mathias Kuemmerlen from Senckenberg Natural History Museum. The Chinese researchers are members of the Research Group of System Ecology and Watershed Ecology at Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IHB).
A research team consisting of researchers from both China and Germany headed to Changjiang River, a tributary of Poyang Lake which is located in Jiangxi Province, for a one-month field sampling this October.
The Sino-German cooperative project “Integrated modelling of the response of aquatic ecosystems to land use and climate change in the Poyang Lake region, China” is one of the seven projects within NSFC/DFG joint funding programme “Water Resources Management and Adaptation under Rapidly Changing Environmental Conditions”, and also the first cooperative project within the Sino-German cooperative project “Assessment of Freshwater Ecosystems under Global Change” (EcoChange). The project will study the response of aquatic ecosystems to land use and climate change in Changjiang River, Poyang Lake.
Preliminary samplings have been done in this March. The current trip to Changjiang River aimed at fulfilling
the plan fixed at the conference held at Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel this September. When the field sampling was finished, Mathias Kuemmerlen came to Wuhan for another one-month research with the members of the Research Group of System Ecology and Watershed Ecology at IHB. He made a presentation entitled "Integrated modeling of benthic macroinvertebrates in the Poyang Lake Region, China” during his stay at the institute.
Preliminary samplings have been done in this March.
This cooperation provided a platform for both sides to enhance mutual understanding and exchange views on the latest research progress with each other.
