ALFAwetlands blog
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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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Training on European Wetland Map
Join ALFawetlands free online training “Unlocking the Power of Wetland Mapping for Restoration“! 📅 Date: 13th May 2025 | 🕙 Time: 10:00-12:00 CET This session is designed to equip policymakers, researchers, and other interested stakeholders with the knowledge and tools to leverage wetland mapping for EU restoration targets. Gain expert insights, explore the European Wetland…
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Call for Experts: Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services in Wetlands
We are searching for BES experts! Deadline is the 01st of September, 2025! Contribute to ALFAwetlands Task 3.4. on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services in Wetlands! We are inviting wetland researchers and experts to contribute to our ongoing work in ALFAwetlands Task 3.4: “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) responses in wetlands under different land use, restoration…
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ALFAwetlands joins iNaturalist
iNaturalist is a powerful online platform and mobile app that connects people who share an interest in biodiversity. It serves as a social network for scientists, naturalists, and enthusiasts, enabling users to identify and learn about the plants and animals around them while contributing to global conservation efforts. By simply recording and sharing your observations,…
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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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ALFAwetlands at the International Science Festival
On 29th November, ALFAwetlands partner Julien Tournebize from National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) hold a presentation at the International Science Festival: Agriculture – Food – Environment! His presentation, titled “Nature-based solutions to preserve quality”, aligns perfectly with this year’s festival theme: “Water, from its sources to the ocean.” This fourth edition…
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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…
