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
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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Iron co-limitation of Sargassum fluitans
Aquatic Botany (2025), Volume: 196 - ISSN 0304-3770 -
Assessing the ecological potential of reservoirs: a principal response curve (PRC) analysis approach
Hydrobiologia (2024), Volume: 851, Issue: 1 - ISSN 0018-8158 - p. 25-44. -
Spread of the cycles: a feedback perspective on the Anthropocene
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2024), Volume: 379, Issue: 1893 - ISSN 0962-8436