Members of our team published new research article identifying the main gaps of recent freshwater salinisation research. Here is the link of the article proposing a research agenda for future...

AQUACOSM-plus project is published as a Success Story by TÜBİTAK Horizon Europe: AQUACOSM-plus success story

Turkish Radio Television (TRT) had an interview with our AQUACOSM-Plus and CLIM-SALTLAKES team at the METU Biology Mesocosm System regarding the project objectives. Here is the video of the...

CLIM-SALTLAKES experiment started at the METU Biology Mesocosm System on 9th of September. Experiment aims to address the effect of climate change and salinization on biodiversity and lake...

Our team leaders Prof. Meryem Beklioğlu and Prof. Erik Jeppesen discussed both local and global-scale water crisis at the recent "Teke Tek" programme hosted by Fatih altaylı on 22th August. During...

AQUACOSM PROJECT 2021 EXPERIMENT focusing on "Determining the effects of high DOC and warming on the microbial and planktonic food web structure and efficiency" is completed. Here are the details of...

Cyanobacteria bloom (Microcystis aeruginosa) has observed yesterday at Lake Eymir during the biweekly monitoring programme performed by METU EKOSAM. Prof Meryem Beklioğlu spoke to Anadolu Ajansı...

The local field surveys of our TUBITAK 2232 project named CLIM-SALTLAKES where we investigate the impacts of climate change in salty and brakish waters are completed....

On June 10th, we are pleased to invite you to the launch of the new EU funded 'PONDERFUL' project which is the largest European research project so far tackling the conservation and ecology of ponds...

New publication from Erdoğan et al. focusing on phytoplankton size structure is published in Journal of Plankton Search. Several SEM models employed showed that both bottom-up and top-...

Ecosystem Implementation and Research Center (EKOSAM) and Nature Conservation Centre (DKM) organizing  3rd Tür Say! event at METU Campus with the support of EKOSAM Student Club. Tür Say!...

"Climate Change and Ecosystems" discussion panel by ITU Climate Change Implementation and Research Center will take place virtually at 13:00 o'clock on 6th of May. Panel brings 4 climate change...

International Society of Limnology News Vol.77 published a short story about Prof Meryem Beklioğlu as an SIL member:

Kick Off meeting of our PONDERFUL project performed online this week. We are all very inspired to start this European funded H2020  research project which aims to develop better methods for...

The Department of Biological Sciences is inviting applications for an Assistant Professor position in terrestrial ECOLOGY, primarily working on steppe or forest ecology. For more information, please...

Congrats to Nur Filiz et al. for their recent publication (December 2020) on the effects of nutrient, temperature and a heat wave on phytoplankton community structure. Mesocosm experiment performed...

Congratulations to our member Dr. Korhan Ozkan for winning the 2020 TÜBA-GEBIP young scientist award and our affiliated faculty Prof Erik Jeppesen for the TUBA International Academy Award. TUBA...

We are seeking a PhD student (3 years duration), to start in January 2021. Applications are being accepted for EU- H2020, INFRIA funded AQUACOSM-plus Project together with an EU-H2020-funded...

 We are seeking a PhD student (3 years duration), to start in January 2021. Applications are being accepted for EU- H2020, INFRIA funded AQUACOSM-PLUS Project as well as a nationally funded (...

Hürriyet Daily News - 18.07.2020

Our Nature Ecology & Evolution Paper on the impacts of multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems revieved by Peter R. Leavitt in Nature News and Views (Review link). The review is...

Together with Daniel Hering, lead author of our 2020  Nature Ecology & Evolution paper Sebastian Birk summarizes the major findings in the Freshwater Blog with an article named "...

Years of collaborative work of scientists from MARS project published in Nature Ecology & Evolution in June 2020 (open access pdf link: Birk et al. 2020). From METU Limnology Laboratory Team,...