Conference Review: 2018 EXAR Tagung in Unteruhldingen (DE) by Roeland P Paardekooper

“…For the annual Tagung (conference), about 120 people convened in the southernmost point of Germany, at Lake Constance, near the borders of Switzerland and Austria. …”
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Cultivation of choice: new insights into farming practices at Neolithic lakeshore sites by Styring, A, Maier, U, Stephan, E, Schlichtherle, H, Bogaard, A

“…At Hornstaad-Hornle IA and Sipplingen, on the shore of Lake Constance in south-west Germany, this method has been used to provide a unique insight into strategies of cultivation such as manuring on both a patial and temporal scale.…”

Investigation and validation of two all-weather land surface temperature products with in-situ measurements by Yizhen Meng, Ji Zhou, Frank-Michael Göttsche, Wenbin Tang, João Martins, Lluis Perez-Planells, Jin Ma, Ziwei Wang

“…Because MLST-AS pixels classified as “inland water” are masked out, the validation over Lake Constance is limited to TRIMS LST: it yields a RMSE of 1.6 K. …”
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The Influence of a solar eclipse on temperature and wind in the Upper-Rhine Valley - A numerical case study by Bernhard Vogel, Michael Baldauf, Franz Fiedler

“…The effects on wind speed are rather small with the exception of the slopes of the mountains and in the vicinity of Lake Constance.…”
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Fate of Planktothrix-derived toxins in aquatic food webs: A case study in Lake Mindelsee (Germany) by Eva Riehle, Daniel G. Beach, Selina Multrus, Tarn Preet Parmar, Dominik Martin-Creuzburg, Daniel R. Dietrich

“…Using 16 S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, we found that five sequence variants of Planktothrix spp. were responsible for bloom formation in September and October of 2019, and these MC-producing variants, provisionally identified as P. isothrix and/or P. serta, occurred exclusively in Lake Mindelsee (Germany), while other variants were also detected in nearby Lake Constance. The remaining cyanobacterial community was dominated by Cyanobiaceae species with high species overlap with Lake Constance, suggesting a well-established exchange of cyanobacteria species between the adjacent lakes. …”
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Water quality footprint of agricultural emissions of nitrogen, phosphorus and glyphosate associated with German bioeconomy by Anna C. Schomberg, Stefan Bringezu, Arthur W. H. Beusen

“…In total, the virtual German water quality footprint corresponds to 90 times the volume of Lake Constance. If water pollution had to be eliminated by dilution in export countries supplying Germany, volumes would be by a median of 300 times higher than the associated irrigation volumes there and could exceed natural water availability. …”
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Impact of Insulin-Treated Compared to Non-Insulin-Treated Diabetes Mellitus on Outcome of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Drug-Coated Balloons versus Drug-Eluting Stents in... by Julia Seeger, Jochen Wöhrle, Bruno Scheller, Ahmed Farah, Marc-Alexander Ohlow, Norman Mangner, Sven Möbius-Winkler, Daniel Weilenmann, Georg Stachel, Gregor Leibundgut, Peter Rickenbacher, Marco Cattaneo, Nicole Gilgen, Christoph Kaiser, Raban Jeger, on behalf of the BASKET-SMALL 2 Investigators

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Großräumige grenzüberschreitende Verflechtungsräume by Andrea Hartz, Gerd-Rainer Damm, Stefan Köhler

“…Jointly with partners from the Maas-Rhine Euroregion, (SaarLorLux+) Euroregion, Trinational Upper Rhine metropolitan area and Lake Constance region, the regional policy of the federal government is aimed at establishing the particular importance of cross-border metropolitan areas for growth and innovation, as well as for the European target of territorial cohesion, within regional policy discussions in Germany and Europe. …”
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The Diverse Reticulate Genetic Set-Up of Endangered <i>Gladiolus palustris</i> in Southern Germany Has Consequences for the Development of Conservation Strategies by Marcus A. Koch

“…Introduced populations in this area (comprising the German Federal States of Baden–Württemberg and Rhineland–Palatinate) likely descend from a large source population near Lake Constance. Therefore, the study suggests promoting and protecting these new populations, given their long-standing presence in the region. …”
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Rhine low water crisis: From individual adaptation possibilities to strategical pathways by Julie Gobert, Julie Gobert, Florence Rudolf

“…This article aims at questioning how the crisis acted as a stimulus for port authorities and their customers to consider the risks for their assets and operations and as a window of opportunity for creating a new collective and for defining “solutions.”MethodologyInspired by the Impact Chain methodology, a step-by-step protocol integrating focus groups and interviews, was applied so that stakeholders affected by low waters can identify their individual and common vulnerability and define possible ways of acting (pathways).ResultsOne of these pathways, the transitional infrastructural pathway, targets to increase the water level and overcome low water levels (use of Lake Constance as a water reservoir or creation of new water storage areas; deepening of the channel at Kaub and Maxau). …”
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Novel methodologies for dosimetry audits: Adapting to advanced radiotherapy techniques by Marlies Pasler, Victor Hernandez, Núria Jornet, Catharine H. Clark

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Water Influx through the Wetted Surface of a Sweet Cherry Fruit: Evidence for an Associated Solute Efflux by Andreas Winkler, Deborah Riedel, Daniel Alexandre Neuwald, Moritz Knoche

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Models for adaptive feeding and population dynamics in plankton by Piltz, S

“…We compare the model simulations with data from Lake Constance on the German-Swiss-Austrian border and suggest possible mechanistic explanations for cycles in plankton concentrations in spring.…”

Epiphytic bacterial community composition on two common submerged macrophytes in brackish water and freshwater by Blindow Irmgard, Blume Maja, Hempel Melanie, Gross Elisabeth M

“…We compared the composition of epiphytic bacteria on two common aquatic macrophytes, the macroalga <it>Chara aspera </it>Willd. and the angiosperm <it>Myriophyllum spicatum </it>L., in two habitats, freshwater (Lake Constance) and brackish water (Schaproder Bodden), using fluorescence <it>in situ </it>hybridization. …”
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Measuring Device for Air Speed in Macroporous Media and Its Application Inside Apple Storage Bins by Martin Geyer, Ulrike Praeger, Ingo Truppel, Holger Scaar, Daniel A. Neuwald, Reiner Jedermann, Klaus Gottschalk

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Ecological disturbance reduces genomic diversity across an Alpine whitefish adaptive radiation by David Frei, Salome Mwaiko, Ole Seehausen, Philine G. D. Feulner

“…We here assess genomic diversity utilising whole‐genome resequencing data from all four species of the Lake Constance Alpine whitefish radiation. Our data covers a period of strong but transient anthropogenic environmental change and permits us to track changes in genomic diversity in all species over time. …”
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Wrack line formation and composition on shores of a large Alpine lake: The role of littoral topography and wave exposure. by Wolfgang Ostendorp, Hilmar Hofmann, Jens Peter Armbruster

“…In one of the first studies to focus on wrack line formation on lakesides, we analysed the dimensions, volume, elevation and particulate composition of 36 wrack lines across 20 shore sections of a large, oligotrophic Alpine lake with natural water level fluctuations (Lake Constance-Obersee). Using multivariate partial least squares (PLS) regression, we identified the key environmental variables that drive wrack accumulation in lakeside areas. …”
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Modelling Vegetation Health and Its Relation to Climate Conditions Using Copernicus Data in the City of Constance by Fithrothul Khikmah, Christoph Sebald, Martin Metzner, Volker Schwieger

“…The results derived contribute to the overall development of a workflow and tool for and within the CoKLIMAx project to gain and deliver new insights that capture vegetation health by explicitly using data from the CDS with a focus on the City of Constance at Lake Constance in southern Germany. The results shall help gain new insights and improve urban resilient, climate-adaptive planning by providing an intuitive tool for monitoring vegetation health and its response to climate conditions.…”
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Quantification of Foraging Areas for the Northern Bald Ibis (<i>Geronticus eremita</i>) in the Northern Alpine Foothills: A Random Forest Model Fitted with Optical and Actively Sen... by Helena Wehner, Katharina Huchler, Johannes Fritz

“…The map resulting from the model predicts the highest foraging suitability for valley floors, especially of Inn, Rhine, and Salzach-Valley as well as flatlands, like the Swiss Plateau and the agricultural areas surrounding Lake Constance. Areas with a high suitability index largely overlap with known historic breeding sites. …”
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Is it north or west foehn? A Lagrangian analysis of Penetration and Interruption of Alpine Foehn intensive observation period 1 (PIANO IOP 1) by M. Saigger, A. Gohm

“…</p> <p>The trajectory analysis shows that the major part of the air arriving in Innsbruck originates 6 h earlier over eastern France, crosses the two mountain ranges of the Vosges and the Black Forest, and finally impinges on the Alps near Lake Constance and the Rhine Valley. Orographic precipitation over the mountains leads to a net diabatic heating of about 2.5 K and to a moisture loss of about 1 g kg<span class="inline-formula">⁻¹</span> along the trajectories. …”
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