Water bodies in Europe: Integrative Systems to assess Ecological status and Recovery
Abstract
WISER will support the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) by developing tools for the integrated assessment of the ecological status of European surface waters (with a focus on lakes and coastal/transitional waters), and by evaluating recovery processes in rivers, lakes and coastal/transitional waters under global change constraints. The project will (1) analyse existing data from more than 90 databases compiled in previous and ongoing projects, covering all water categories, Biological Quality Elements (BQEs) and stressor types and (2) perform targeted field-sampling exercises including all relevant BQEs in lakes and in coastal/transitional waters. New assessment systems will be developed and existing systems will be evaluated for lakes and coastal/transitional waters, with special focus on how uncertainty affects classification strength, to complete a set of assessment methodologies for these water categories. Biological recovery processes, in all water categories and in different climatic conditions, will be analysed, with focus on mitigation of hydromorphological and eutrophication pressures. Large-scale data will be used to identify linkages between pressure variables and BQE responses. Specific case studies, using a variety of modelling techniques, will address selected pressure-response relationships and the efficacy of mitigation measures. The responses of different BQEs and different water categories to human-induced degradation and mitigation will be compared, with special focus on response signatures of BQEs within and among water categories. Guidance for the next steps of the intercalibration exercise will be given by comparing different intercalibration approaches. Stakeholders will be included from the outset, by building small teams of stakeholders and project partners responsible for a group of deliverables, to ensure the applicability and swift implementation of results.
Ecological assessment Biological quality elements Water framework directive Water framework directive
Publikationen
Extraction of data from WISER databases
Autoren: Dudley B; Moe J; Schmidt-Kloiber A; Carvalho L; Jahr: 2012
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Data about data – the WISER metadatabase
Autoren: Schmidt-Kloiber A; Dudley B; Moe J; Strackbein J; Vogl R; Jahr: 2012
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Current questions in water management - Book of Abstracts of the WISER final conference
Autoren: Schmidt-Kloiber A; Hartmann A; Strackbein J; Feld C.K; Hering D; Jahr: 2012
Editorial
Project staff
Stefan Schmutz
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Stefan Schmutz
stefan.schmutz@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81202
BOKU Project Leader
01.03.2009 - 01.03.2012
Andreas Melcher
Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Andreas Melcher
andreas.melcher@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93411
Sub Projectleader
01.03.2009 - 01.03.2012
Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber
ask@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81225
Sub Projectleader
01.03.2009 - 01.03.2012
Ilse Schwarzinger
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Ilse Schwarzinger
ilse.schwarzinger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-10118
Project Staff
01.03.2009 - 01.03.2012
BOKU partners
External partners
University of Duisburg-Essen
Prof. Dr. Daniel Hering
partner
University of Hull International Fisheries, Great Britain
none
partner