SAMI DOMISCH

Global biodiversity is declining across ecosystems, and freshwater organisms and habitats are among the most threatened. While finding appropriate countermeasures, a key challenge is first to gain a comprehensive picture of the current status of freshwater biodiversity. Compared to the terrestrial and marine realms, freshwater biodiversity remains understudied in terms of its ecological significance and distinctiveness, resulting in a lack of effective conservation at regional to global scales... The Leibniz Junior Research Group aims to fill this gap by applying cutting-edge global geospatial analyses focusing on: (i) a new habitat type delineation using the newly developed Hydrography90m dataset that delineates stream channels globally at 90m spatial resolution ; (ii) state-of-the-art machine learning models to map the diversity of aquatic insects, the most diverse freshwater animal group, based on the new EPTO database where we collated global occurrences of Ephemeroptera,..

Primary location: Berlin Germany