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
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
-
On the probability of ecological risks from microplastics in the Laurentian Great lakes
Environmental Pollution 325 (2023). - ISSN 0269-7491 -
Battle for the mounds : Niche competition between upside-down jellyfish and invasive seagrass
Ecology (2023). - ISSN 0012-9658 - 5 p. -
Effects of the antidepressant fluoxetine on the swimming behaviour of the amphipod Gammarus pulex : Comparison of short-term and long-term toxicity in the laboratory and the semi-field
Science of the Total Environment 872 (2023). - ISSN 0048-9697 - 12 p.