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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A just world on a safe planet: First study quantifying safe and just Earth System Boundaries
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Study: past extreme climate warming triggered by tipping points
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Manatees equipped with cameras for seagrass research
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Sea turtles in a landscape of fear
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Sea turtles are returning, what are the effects on ecosystem functioning?
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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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 -
Using a Bayesian Network Model to Predict Risk of Pesticides on Aquatic Community Endpoints in a Rice Field—A Southern European Case Study
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (2023) - ISSN 0730-7268 -
Combination of Measures to Restore Eutrophic Urban Ponds in The Netherlands
Water (2023), Volume: 15, Issue: 20 - ISSN 2073-4441