Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management
We aim to generate novel insights that can help preserving and restoring marine and freshwater ecosystem services. We take a systems approach linking physical, chemical and biological processes across scales.
Chair holder
Central issues:
- the aquatic ecosystem
- the ecological function of marine and freshwater systems
- the physical-chemical quality of surface waters and sediments
- the impact of water quality on human use of surface water, including diversity
- modelling of ecosystem relations and the fate and effects of substances
News
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How do we provide the world with sufficient and clean water? -
Effects of global change on chemicals in aquatic ecosystems -
Rainfall after drought causes explosion of cyanobacteria populations -
Japanese oyster helps endangered Dutch flat oyster -
Green sea turtle digging its own watery grave due to invasion of non-native seagrass
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Advancement of benthic indicators and biomarker-based tools for biomonitoring and risk assessment in the Barents Sea region -
Life in the polar oceans: the role of sea ice in the biology and ecology of marine species -
Model studies on the dynamics of hydrophobic organic compounds in shallow lake ecosystems
Research
The research is multidisciplinary (environmental engineering, environmental chemistry and aquatic ecology) and ranges from the laboratory scale (detailed process studies) to the scale of actual ecosystems (field studies). The multidisciplinary expertise of the team comes together in the development of integrated models for ecosystem and water quality management.
Education
The Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group provides a major learning routes, which prepares the student for the MSc thesis Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality.
Latest publications
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Modeling nutrients in Lake Dianchi (China) and its watershed
Agricultural Water Management 212 (2019). - ISSN 0378-3774 - p. 48 - 59.
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Plant functional diversity and nutrient availability can improve restoration of floating fens via facilitation, complementarity and selection effects
Journal of Applied Ecology (2018). - ISSN 0021-8901
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Quality criteria for the analysis of microplastic in biota samples: a critical review
Environmental Science and Technology 52 (2018)18. - ISSN 0013-936X - p. 10230 - 10240.