Skip to main content
European Commission logo
français français
CORDIS - Résultats de la recherche de l’UE
CORDIS
CORDIS Web 30th anniversary CORDIS Web 30th anniversary
Contenu archivé le 2024-05-29

Integrated Project to Evaluate the Impacts of Global Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems

Objectif

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-lampas 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 Em’s Charter on Sustainable Development. The Project comprises a consortium of leading scientists to integrate river, lake and wetland ecosystem science at the catchments scale. 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 catchments analysis and modelling will be developed to simulate hydrological, hydro chemical and ecological processes at the catchments 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.

Champ scientifique (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classe les projets avec EuroSciVoc, une taxonomie multilingue des domaines scientifiques, grâce à un processus semi-automatique basé sur des techniques TLN.

Vous devez vous identifier ou vous inscrire pour utiliser cette fonction

Mots‑clés

Programme(s)

Thème(s)

Appel à propositions

FP6-2002-GLOBAL-1
Voir d’autres projets de cet appel

Régime de financement

IP - Integrated Project

Coordinateur

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Contribution de l’UE
Aucune donnée
Adresse
Gower Street
LONDON
Royaume-Uni

Voir sur la carte
Liens
Coût total
Aucune donnée

Participants (37)

Partager cette page

Télécharger

Dernière mise à jour: 22 Octobre 2010

Mon livret

Permalink: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/505540/fr

European Union, 2025