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

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 99.0394-3

Key words (English)

Limnology; atmospheric deposition; ecotoxicology; regionalisation

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: EVK1-1999-00032

Research programs (English)

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

Short description (English)

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Partners and International Organizations (English)

Coordinator: University College London (UK)

Abstract (English)

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.

References in databases (English)

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