Objective
Extended lake areas originating from former open cast coal mining are created in eastern Germany during the next decades owing to the strong reduction of mining activities since 1991. The frequently large and deep lakes are often extremely acidified (pH 2-3.5) by pyrite oxidation which renders them unsuitable for fishing, recreation, irrigation, and drinking water supply. Given the large socio- economical impact/expectations, techniques for neutralization are urgently searched for. This is hampered by a lack of a very basic understanding of the food web structure and functioning, the mechanisms by which some organisms are able to adapt to the adverse habituate, etc. By setting up a mutually stimulating interplay between field, laboratory, and modelling studies we want to address these questions. Complex laboratory studies are essential to identify the causes underlying the differences in food web functioning between natural and mining lakes which are required for a cost efficient neutralization of the lakes without unbearable eutrophication. Food webs in acid mining lakes provide also excellent model systems to recognize general regularities of ecological processes in ext
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries fisheries
- engineering and technology environmental engineering water treatment processes drinking water treatment processes
- engineering and technology civil engineering water engineering irrigation
- natural sciences chemical sciences electrochemistry electrolysis
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels fossil energy coal
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14469 POTSDAM
Germany
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