Author: Lika Kvizhashvili
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Join exciting biodiversity observations 2025
This year ALFAwetlands will again join City Nature Challenge initiative as an important citizens engagement activity. This will support understanding of wetlands importance and biodiversity benefits by involving the public in data collection and awareness initiatives. The City Nature Challenge (CNC) is an annual global community science event that encourages individuals worldwide to document urban biodiversity. Participants photograph…
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New European Wetland Map: a milestone in wetland conservation
On time for the World Wetlands Day, the European Wetland Map (‘EWM’) is launched. This map significantly enhances the state-of-knowledge on wetlands across Europe by locating, assessing and merging the latest geospatial data. It combines various data from Geographic Information Systems (GIS) on wetland types and their distribution on mineral soil in coastal environments and…
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Modelling land use: peatland rewetting in the European climate mitigation targets
ALFAwetlands applies different models and one of them is GLOBIOM, the Global Biosphere Management Model. The European Commission’s impact assessments of the Fit for 55 reform and the 2040 climate target outline clear pathways to achieve climate neutrality in the EU27 by 2050, a goal adopted by the European Union. These assessments emphasize that contributions…
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Modelling toolbox in ALFAwetlands (Part 2)
The EU modelling toolbox integrates models used in living lab experimental plots with large-scale input data gridded over Europe. The biophysical and land use models are already trained for a long list of mitigation options in agriculture, grasslands, and forests, while the wetland options have been built based on the ALFAwetlands site modelling. In each…
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Modelling toolbox in ALFAwetlands (Part 1)
ALFAwetlands extrapolates the knowledge about restoration effects on ecosystem services (ES) from living labs to similar conditions across larger regions and Europe. With this, project is aiming to quantify the potential contribution of wetland restoration and rehabilitation to the EU climate mitigation efforts. To do so, ALFAwetlands employs: EU-scale models In our setup, site modelling…
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Modelling and scenarios in the ALFAwetlands project
Building on the inventory of European wetlands and the measurement of restoration impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services in living labs, work carried out in other ALFAwetlands work packages, Work Package 4 pursues an ambitious objective to use models to upscale the knowledge from living labs to the EU-level and quantify how wetland restoration can contribute to achieving the EU…
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Meet IIASA: ALFAwetlands partner from Austria
About IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an ALFAwetlands partner from Austria. IIASA is a non-governmental, multi-national organization devoted to interdisciplinary, policy-oriented research focusing on selected aspects of environmental, economic, technological, and social issues in the context of global change. IIASA investigators perform interdisciplinary research that combines methods and models from the…
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Living Lab Open Day in Latvia!
On September 27th, 2024, the ALFAwetlands Living Lab Open Day was held in Latvia as part of the European Researchers’ Night activities in Latvia. It was organized by the Latvian State Forest Research Institute (LSFRI) “Silava,” a partner of ALFAwetlands. Science and nature enthusiasts were invited to visit 35 science stops across Latvia, including the…
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Wetland experts come together at the SERE Conference in Estonia
Four EU-funded projects on wetland restoration jointly presented at and attended the 14th European Conference on Ecological Restoration (SERE 2024) in Tartu, Estonia. Their activities at the conference highlight the importance of collaboration in restoring and preserving Europe’s wetlands. The SERE 2024 conference brought together experts working in science, policy, and restoring ecosystems. Wetlands were…