1. Aquatic Ecosystems and Global Change
FACULTY OF SCIENCE Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
Aquatic Ecosystems and Global Change
Wouter Los
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2. Aquatic ecosystems research programme
Aquatic biodiversity and ecosystems dynamics
Global change impacts on aquatic systems
Atmosphere / water /sediment / soil interactions

3. Research interests and expertise
Plankton competition rates and other biological processes
Fate of organic compounds in water / sediment / soils
Mechanistic studies on the atmosphere - land - water / pelagic - benthic / sediment - water interfaces
Upscaling to ecosystem level ; integration of models
Modelling of the spatio-temporal water cycle
Risk assessment and forecasting / management implications
E-science (distributed databases and computing, GIS modelling)