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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Bart Koelmans succeeds Marten Scheffer as chair holder -
Evidence on microplastics does not yet point to widespread risk, say Europe’s top scientists group -
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
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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Modelling induced bank filtration effects on freshwater ecosystems to ensure sustainable drinking water production
Water Research 157 (2019). - ISSN 0043-1354 - p. 19 - 29.
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Livestock Herbivory Shapes Fire Regimes and Vegetation Structure Across the Global Tropics
Ecosystems (2019). - ISSN 1432-9840
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Benthic effects of offshore renewables: identification of knowledge gaps and urgently needed research
ICES Journal of Marine Science (2019). - ISSN 1054-3139 - 17 p.