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.
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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
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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.
Current MSc subjects
Latest publications
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Belief traps: Tackling the inertia of harmful beliefs
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (2022)32. - ISSN 0027-8424 -
Range expansion of Marinomyxa marina, a phytomyxid parasite of the invasive seagrass Halophila stipulacea, to the Caribbean
Aquatic Botany 182 (2022). - ISSN 0304-3770 -
Investigating the effect of Eh and pH on binding forms of Co, Cu, and Pb in wetland sediments from Zambia
Journal of Environmental Management 319 (2022). - ISSN 0301-4797