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Integrated Project to Evaluate the Impacts of Global Change on European
Freshwater ecosystems, under stress from land-use change and pollution, face
additional pressures from climate change, directly and
through interaction with other drivers of change. Euro-limpacs is concerned
with the science required to understand and manage the
ecological consequences of these interactions. It is relevant to the Water
Framework Directive and other international directives and
protocols and supports the EU's Charter on Sustainable Development. The
Project comprises a consortium of leading scientists to
integrate river, lake and wetland ecosystem science at the catchment scale.
| Project number | 505540 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject(s) | ANALYSIS AND TESTS | ||
| Acronym | EURO-LIMPACS | ||
| Geographical coverage | United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Austria, Italy, France, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Greece | ||
| Budget (in €) | 19154659 | ||
| Programme | INCO MED (FP6) | ||
| Web site | http://www.eurolimpacs.ucl.ac.uk/ | ||
| Objectives | - It focuses on the key drivers of aquatic ecosystem change (land-use,
nutrients, acid deposition and toxic substances) and examines their
interactions with global, especially climate, change using time-series
analysis, space-for-time substitution, palaeolimnology, experiments and
process modelling. It considers these interactions at 3 critical
time-scales: (I) hours/days, concerned with changes in the magnitude and
frequency of extreme events; (ii) seasons, concerned with changes in
ecosystem function and life-cycle strategies of freshwater biota; (iii)
years/decades, concerned with ecological response to environmental pressure,
including stress reduction and ecosystem recovery. An innovative toolkit for
integrated catchment analysis and modelling will be developed to simulate hydrological, hydrochemical and ecological processes at the catchment scale for use in assessing the potential impact of global change under different climate and socio-economic scenarios. A unified system of ecological indicators for monitoring freshwater ecosystem health, and new methods for defining reference conditions and restoration strategies will be developed.These will take into account the probable impacts of future climate change and the need for a holistic approach to restoration based on habitat connectivity. |
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| Period | [01/02/2004 - 01/02/2009] | ||
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02/09/2008
