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Hydroecological modelling in a polder landscape: a tool for wetland management

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Landscape Ecology of a Stressed Environment

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Dutch polder areas are losing much of their characteristic biotic diversity because many wetland species are decreasing or have disappeared. As a consequence communities impoverish and ecosystems desintegrate. The origin of this problem is complex: eutrophication, acidiphication, inversion of groundwater or surface water flows. The inversion of groundwater flows, for instance caused by groundwater abstraction, leads to the infiltration of polluted surface water instead of the former exfiltration of clean seepage water. Due to the inversion of surface water flows polluted river water is imported, instead of the former export of autochtonous surplus water. The need to supply extra river water is partly to compensate for the cease of seepage water, partly caused by pumping out water surpluses in winter, to facilitate agriculture. Policy makers and responsible authorities wish to develop water management in a way that gives new opportunities for the re-establishment of lost biotic values. If a number of management alternatives exist, a tool is needed to assess the ecological impact of the alternatives. For that reason a model is developed that predicts the responses of wetland species to different water management scenarios.

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    Claire C. Vos

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    Paul Opdam

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Barendregt, A., Wassen, M.J., de Smidt, J.T. (1993). Hydroecological modelling in a polder landscape: a tool for wetland management. In: Vos, C.C., Opdam, P. (eds) Landscape Ecology of a Stressed Environment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2318-1_4

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