Adaptive Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems

The project 'Adaptive Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems' started in 2010 and ended in 2013.

The key objective of REFRESH was to develop a framework that will enable water managers to design cost-effective restoration programmes for freshwater ecosystems. This will account for the expected future impacts of climate change and land-use. REFRESH was to evaluate a series of specific adaptive measures that might be taken to minimise adverse consequences of climate change on freshwater quantity, quality and biodiversity. The focus was on three principal climate-related and interacting pressures; i) increasing temperature; ii) changes in water levels and flow regimes; and ii) excess nutrients.

This was a collaborative project within the EU FP7. SLU contributed with 594 000 Euro.

The following researchers from the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessments participated in the project: Richard K. Johnson, David Angeler, Didier Baho, Stina Drakare, Leonard Sandin, Karin Almlöf, Peter Carlson, Kristina Tattersdill och David Landbecker.

External partner and project coordinator was Martin Kernan, UCL, UK.

Further reading on the project here!