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An innovative monitoring strategy for the carrying capacity in the Dutch coastal zone
The carrying capacity is the amount of biomass that can be sustained in an ecosystem. This is driven by parameters like nutrient and light availability, primary production (phytoplankton, phytobenthos), secundary production (zooplankton, shellfish) and large scale transport of these components. Major part of the research will be GIS based analysis of these parameters combined with Remote Sensing images and (ecological) models. The aim of this analysis is to optimize information extraction for scientists and coastal managers, and to design a cost effective monitoring network.
Affiliation
My work is supervised by professor Willem Bouten, at Computational Geo-Ecology (CGE), one of the research groups within the Institute for Biodiversity andEcosystem Dynamics (IBED).
The project is part of the National Programme Sea and Coast Research (NWO-ZKO).
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NWO-ZKO project
