ALFAwetlands blog
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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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A European-scale campaign during the summer of 2024 across the 5 living labs
The field campaign Within ALFAwetlands, we measure and evaluate wetland restorations, impacts and possible strategies, trying to answer multiple specific research questions. The variety of wetland living labs across Europe allows partner-wise harmonized methodologies for continuous monitoring. Furthermore, individual experiments may be conducted. In this context, the CNRS team from Toulouse, in collaboration with 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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LL Estonia – how we accompany the restoration of former peat extraction areas
ALFAwetlands Living Lab in Estonia, run by University of Tartu, consists of four sites, namely: Vända, Laiuse, Ess-soo and Kuresoo. Below you will find more details about the history and current restoration activities at the Laiuse and Ess-soo. The history of peat extraction mining Wetlands, particularly peatlands, demand our special attention. ALFAwetlands addresses the restoration
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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
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Peatland monitoring in LL Estonia
Natural peatlands are quite sensitive ecosystems, or, more specifically, terrestrial wetland ecosystems. Their naturally water-logged conditions, on the one hand, prevent plant material from fully decomposing, which means peatlands produce more organic matter than they decompose. Undrained peatlands accumulate Carbon and, in the long run, sequester Carbon. Those acted as “CO2 sinks for millennia, exerting
