EMERGE: European mountain lake ecosystems - regionalisation, diagnostics & socio-economic evaluation

• Forschungsstelle: EU FRP
• Projektnummer: 99.0394-3
• Projekttitel Englisch: EMERGE: European mountain lake ecosystems - regionalisation, diagnostics & socio-economic evaluation

Schlüsselwörter (Englisch)

Limnology; atmospheric deposition; ecotoxicology; regionalisation

Alternative Projektnummern (Englisch)

EU project number: EVK1-1999-00032

Forschungsprogramme (Englisch)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.4a.2 Global change, climate and biodiversity

Kurzbeschreibung (Englisch)

See abstract

Partner und Internationale Organisationen (Englisch)

Coordinator: University College London (UK)

Abstract (Englisch)

REMOTE MOUNTAIN LAKES ARE THE MOST SENSITIVE AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS IN EUROPE. THE PROJECT EMERGE COMBINES REGIONALISATION TECHNIQUES WITH EMPIRICAL AND PROCESS-BASED MODELLING OF THE LAKES' MAIN ECOLOGICAL FEATURES BASED ON EXISTING DATASETS AND SITE-BASED STUDIES, TO IDENTIFY: DISTRIBUTIONS OF DISTURBANCE/POLLUTION FOR ALL EUROPEAN MOUNTAIN LAKES; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS AND FISH STATUS AND LAKE ECOLOGICAL REFERENCE STATE. SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSES WILL ASCERTAIN THE VALUES THAT SOCIETY PLACES ON THESE ECOSYSTEMS AND THE COST/BENEFITS INHERENT IN THEIR PROTECTION. EMERGE WILL DEVELOP AN INTEGRATED GIS/DATABASE LINKED TO THE WWW FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS OF PRESENT AND FORESEEN THREATS TO MOUNTAIN LAKES.

Datenbankreferenzen (Englisch)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 99.0394-3