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
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 water quality in the Anthropocene: directions for the next-generation aquatic ecosystem models
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 36 (2019). - ISSN 1877-3435 - p. 85 - 95.
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Effects of nanoplastic and microplastic on the growth of sediment-rooted macrophytes
Science of the Total Environment 654 (2019). - ISSN 0048-9697 - p. 1040 - 1047.
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Priorities and opportunities in the application of the ecosystem services concept in risk assessment for chemicals in the environment
Science of the Total Environment 651 (2019). - ISSN 0048-9697 - p. 1067 - 1077.