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DEPARTMENT

Johann Waringer

Benthic Communities Bioindication Group

Ao. Prof. Dr. Johann Waringer


Department of Limnology
Althanstrasse 14
A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Room: 2.294

Phone: 0043 1 4277 54349

E-mail: E-mail: johann.waringer[AT]univie.ac.at
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The Waringer lab explores ecosystem structure and functioning in streams and floodplain waters and biodiversity of aquatic invertebrates in space and time. Another important aspect, both in the field and the lab, is autecological research and ecohydrology which is crucial for defining ecometrics and for fully using the bioindication potential of aquatic biota.Taxonomy is a prerequisite for this work and another key research field of the lab.
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Ten selected publications

  1. Waringer, J., Graf, W., Kucinic, M., Previsic, A. & Vuckovic, I. (2009) The larva and life cycle of Annitella apfelbecki Klapalek, 1899, including a re-description of Melampophylax nepos McLachlan, 1880 (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae). Aquatic Insects, 31, 71-80.
  2. Waringer, J., Graf, W., Pauls, S. & Cianficconi, F. (2008) The larvae of Drusus improvisus McLachlan, 1884, Drusus camerinus Moretti, 1981 and Drusus aprutiensis Moretti, 1981(Trichoptera: Limnephilidae: Drusinae). Aquatic Insects, 30, 269-279.
  3. König, E. & Waringer, J. (2008) The ballast stones in Silo nigricornis cases (Insecta: Trichoptera): drift resistance and ecological benefits, investigated by acoustic Doppler velocimetry. Archives of Hydrobiology, Suppl. Large Rivers, 18, 311-328.
  4. Pauls, S.U., Graf, W., Haase, P., Lumbsch, H.T. & Waringer, J. (2008) Grazers, shredders and filtering carnivores - The evolution of feeding ecology in Drusinae (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae): insights from a molecular phylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 46, 776-791.
  5. Waringer, J., Graf, W., Pauls, S.U., Vicentini, H. & Lubini, V. (2008) DNA based association and description of the larval stage of Drusus melanchaetes McLachlan, 1876 (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae: Drusinae) with notes on ecology and zoogeography. Limnologica, 38, 34-42.
  6. Dröscher, I. & Waringer, J. (2007) Abundance and microhabitats of freshwater sponges (Spongillidae) in a Danubean floodplain in Austria. Freshwater Biology, 52, 998-1008.
  7. Waringer, J. & Waringer, A. (2006) Illustrating catchment-reach coupling: the effect of discharge type on larval firesalamander distribution. Archives of Hydrobiology, Suppl. Large Rivers, 16, 689-702.
  8. Chovanec, C., Waringer, J., M. Straif, W. Graf, W. Reckendorfer, A. Waringer-Löschenkohl, H. Waidbacher & H. Schultz (2005) The Floodplain Index - a new approach for assessing the ecological status of river/floodplain-systems according to the EU Water Framework Directive. Archives of Hydrobiology, Suppl. Large Rivers, 15, 169-185.
  9. Rauter, A., Weigelhofer, G., Waringer, J. & Battin, T. (2005) Transport and metabolic fate of sewage particles in a recipient stream. Journal of Environmental Quality, 34, 1591-1599.
  10. Singer, G.A., Panzenböck, M., Weigelhofer, G., Marchesani C., Waringer, J., Wanek, W.  & Battin, T. J. (2005) Flow history explains temporal and spatial variation of carbon fractionation in stream periphyton. Limnology and Oceanography, 50, 706-712.