# database_lit

Title:
Nitrate removal by Denitrification in Alluvial Ground Water: Role of a Former Channel

Goal:
Chemical variations of ground water in an ancient meander of the Garonne river were compared with ground water under fields

Design of study:
6 sets of three piezometers, samples of water taken twice a month,

Parameter:
conductivity, pH, ammonium, nitrate, DOC, 15N natural izotope, denitrification potential

Description of Nitrogen data:
ammonium, nitrate,15N natural izotope, denitrification potential all in water


Title:
Groundwater Nitrate Dynamics in Grass and Poplar Vegetated Riparian Buffer Strips during the Winter

Design of study:
two sites (poplar and grass) 14 piezometers first and 24 second


Title:
Nitrogen retention in River Corridors: European Perspective


Projecttitle:
Functional Analysis of European Wetland Ecosystems (FAEWE) 1991-96

citation:
University of Utrecht, Faculty of Biology

Title:
Effects of the vegetation on Carbon, Nitrogen and phosphorus Dynamics in English and French Riverine Grasslands


Title:
Present and future role in nutrient removal from surface water by wetlands, floodplains and reservoires

Goal:
assess capacity of particular systems, evaluate economic value of the retention, assess alternative of technical and social aspect of management

Design of study:
2 phases (phase 1 6 tasks, phase 25 tasks)


Title:
Effects of enhanced nutrient availability on plant and soil nutrient dynamics in two English riverine ecosystems

Authors:
van Oorschot, Robbemont, Boerstal, Strien, Kerkhoven-Schmitz

Design of study:
two floodplain grassland sites w. different fertilisation history were compared

Parameter:
primary production, nutrient uptake, litter production, N and P availability, C concentration, plant biomass


Title:
The effect of litter nutrient concentration on litter decomposition and soil organic matter formation in two English riverine ecosystems

Design of study:
Six locations were studied for  decomposition rate


Title:
The influence of different water levels on plant production, nutrient uptake and nutrient availability in two French riverine grasslands

Goal:
Effects of drought on plant production and nutrient availability

Design of study:
Two sites within each floodplain (high and low lying) studied

Parameter:
organic matter, total organic N, P-pool, pH


Title:
Experimental manipulation of soil water levels in two French riverine grassland soils: effects on soil organic matter decomposition, nutrient availability and plant production

Authors:
van Oorschot, Spink, Gaalen, maltby, Mockler, Verhoeven

Goal:
Effects of different flooding regimes on decomposition of soil organic matter, nutrient availability and plant production

Design of study:
Two floodplain sites studied, 30 vegetated soil turfs tested to three different water levels

Parameter:
water levels, organic decomposition, nutrient availability, plant production


Title:
Modelling nitrogen transformations in freshwater wetlands. Estimating nitrogen retention and removal in natural wetlands inrelation to their hydrology and nutrient loadings


Funding Agency:
Nationalpark Donauauen Gmbh, WSD, BMLFUW

Project output:
reports and several publications, pilot study

Title:
Bedeutung der hydrologischen Vernetzung für die hydrochemische Situation der Augewässer im Bereich Orth/Donau

Goal:
hydrochemical characterisation, nfluence of river

Parameter:
Temp, O2, Chlorophyll, P and N fractions (in- and organic), suspended solids,

purpose of restoration proj:
hydrologic exchange, integration of former sidearms


Title:
Generelles flussbaulich-gewaesseroekologisches Gesamtkonzept fuer March und Thaya

Authors:
TBW, Technische Buero fuer Kulturtechnik und Wasserwirtschaft

Parameter:
Temp, O2, Chlorophyll, P and N fractions (in- and organic), suspended solids, ph, S,

remarks:
detailed study, mkonitored by WSD. Data should be available at WSD. Detailed information will follow by WSD


Projecttitle:
Zam Puszta Wetland restoration Project, Hortobagy National Park, Halas Marsh

Funding Agency:
funds avaialable within the framework of a memorandum of understanding between the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Fisheries and the Hungarian Ministry of Environmental Protection

citation:
Zam Puszta Wetland Restoration Project, Technical Report

Title:
Zam Puszta Wetland Restoration Project, Hortobagy National park


Title:
Nizne Repase - Alternative Wastewater Treatment


Contact Person:
Gustav Nemes / Attila Sarvari cotkeni@matavnet.hu


Title:
Control of non-point source pollution by a natural wetland


citation:
p. 113-118.  In M. Eiseltova and J. Biggs (Eds.), Restoration of Stream Ecosystems an Integrated Catchment Approach.  IWRB Publication 37.

Title:
Restoration of a channelised stream: the Romaubach restoration project


citation:
p. 119 - 125.  In M. Eiseltova and J. Biggs (Eds.), Restoration of Stream Ecosystems an Integrated Catchment Approach.  IWRB Publication 37.

Title:
Restoration of a small stream catchment: Vcelnicka catchment


Projecttitle:
Small wetland restoration near Drnovice village


Funding Agency:
WWF Hungary, Hungarian Ministry of Environment

Project output:
Survey of small wetlands in Hungary, maps

citation:
The protection of small wetlands (in hungarian), Edit. By Eletfa Foundation


Projecttitle:
Protection and sustainable use of peatlands in Slovakia

Funding Agency:
Danish Cooperation for the Environment in Eastern Europe (DANCEE) program

citation:
p. 30-34 In Stanova V. & Vicenikova A., 2003: Biodiversity of Abrod - State, Changes and Restoration.DAPHNE -Instite of Applied Ecology

Title:
Hydrological and water management characteristics of the Porec stream catchment area


Projecttitle:
Ecological Network Duna- Drava National Park-Kopatcki rit Nature Park

Contact Person:
European Center for Nature Conservation, Mihaly Vegh

Title:
Pilot Project:  Ecological Network Duna-Drava national Park-Kopacki Rit nature Park


citation:
Handbook for complex examination of streams(in hungarian), 2000, Goncol Foundation


Title:
Machbarkeitsstudie "Rückbau Traisenunterlauf und Traisenmündung". Endbericht

Authors:
Jungwirth, M., Haidvogl, G., Hohensinner, S., Küblbäck, G., Schmalfuß, R., Eberstaller, J., Pinka, P.


Title:
Gewässerbetreuungskonzept Traisen - Modernes Planungsinstrument für eine integrale Gewässerentwicklung

Authors:
Eberstaller, J., Haidvogl, G., Hanten, P., Jungwirth, M., Küblbäck, G., Zottl, H


Title:
Gewässerbetreuungskonzept Traisen - Zusammenfassender Bericht, Teil 2 Detailerhebungen.

Authors:
Haidvogel, G., Preis, S., Eberstaller, J.


Title:
Gewässerbetreuungskonzept Traisen - Istbestandsaufnahme Flussmorphologie

Authors:
Schager, E., Eberstaller, J., Haidvogl, G.


Title:
The River Elbe in Germany - present state, conflicting goals, and perspectives of rehabilitation

Authors:
Scholten,-M ; Anlauf,-A ; Buchele,-B ; Faulhaber,-P ; Henle,-K; Kofalk,-S ; Leyer,-I ; Meyerhoff,-J ; Purps,-J ; Rast,-G ; Scholz,-M


Title:
Environmental and economic assessment of the location of wetland buffers in the landscape for nutrient removal from agricultural runoff.


Title:
Nutrient removal from eutrophic lake water by wetland filtration.

Authors:
Coveney,-M-F; Stites,-D-L; Lowe,-E-F; Battoe,-L-E; Conrow,-R

Goal:
Restoration includes operation of a treatment wetland, reduction in external P loading, harvest of fish, fluctuation of lake levels, and littoral planting. The District constructed a 2-km2 pilot-scale treatment wetland to test nutrient-removal and hydraulic performance.


citation:
Archiv-für-Hydrobiologie.-Supplement-volumes.-Large-rivers. 2005; 15 (1-4): 579-602

Title:
The River Elbe in Germany : present state, conflicting goals, and perspectives of rehabilitation. Rehabilitating large regulated rivers: Lowland river rehabilitation conference, September 29 - October 3, 2003, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Authors:
SCHOLTEN-M; ANLAUF-A; BÜCHELE-B; FAULHABER-P; HENLE-K; KOFALK-S; LEYER-I; MEYERHOFF-J; PURPS-J; RAST-G; SCHOLZ-M


citation:
Journal-of-environmental-quality. 2005; 34 (6): 2129-2144

Title:
Phosphorus losses from agricultural areas in river basins : Effects and uncertainties of targeted mitigation measures : Critical evaluation of options for reducing phosphorus loss from agriculture

Authors:
KRONVANG-B; BECHMANN-M; LUNDEKVAM-H; BEHRENDT-H; RUBAEK-G-H; SCHOUMANS-O-F; SYVERSEN-N; ANDERSEN-H-E; HOFFMANN-C-C


Title:
Close correlation between the nitrate elimination rate by denitrification and the organic matter content in hardwood forest soils of the Upper Rhine floodplain (France).

Goal:
support modeling of the nitrogen balance and contribute to an efficient flood management strategy for the restored floodplains of the Upper Rhine in order to support nitrate removal by denitrification.


Title:
Impact of floodplain wetlands on nutrient retention in the river Rhine.

Goal:
The main objectives of this study were (i) to evaluate whether an increase of the active floodplain area may increase nutrient retention in the river, and (ii) to evaluate whether rehabilitation of natural floodplain wetlands (i.e. transformation of agricultural grasslands into semi-natural grasslands, reedbeds, woodlands or ponds) may increase nutrient retention.


Title:
Nutrient retention in Floodplains of the Rhine distributaries in the Netherlands

Authors:
G. E. M. VAN DER LEE, H. OLDE VENTERINK and N. E. M. ASSELMAN


Title:
Denitrification potential of a river floodplain during flooding with nitrate-rich water: grasslands versus reedbeds

Authors:
H. OLDE VENTERINK, E. HUMMELINK and M.W. VAN DEN HOORN


citation:
Journal of Environmental Quality 32:1430-1435 (2003)

Title:
Role of Active Floodplains for Nutrient Retention in the River Rhine

Authors:
H. Olde Venterink, F. Wiegman, G. E. M. Van der Lee, and J. E. Vermaat


Title:
Assessment of water quality changes in floodplains of the Ebro River (NE Spain)


Title:
Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus accumulation in floodplains of Atlantic Coastal Plain rivers, USA

River/Watershed:
Chickahominy River (urban), Mattaponi River (forested), Pocomoke River (agricultural).


Title:
Flood detention, nature development and water quality in a detention area along the lowland river Sava, Croatia

Authors:
Martin J. Baptist, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Perry Cornelissen, Joost Icke, Guido van der Wedden, Huib J. de Vriend & Goran Gugić

Goal:
Keywords: hydraulic modelling, vegetation succession, nature management, ecohydrology,


Title:
Hydrodynamics and Sediment-related Nutrient Retention in the Lower Reach of the Iron Gate 1 Reservoir (Danube River, Romania)


Title:
Nutrient Management in the Danube Basin and its Impact on the Black Sea (danubs report)


citation:
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (2002) 54, 369–383

Title:
Benthic Nutrient Cycling and Diagenetic Pathways in the North-western Black Sea

Authors:
J. Friedrich, C. Dinkel, G. Friedl, N. Pimenov, J. Wijsman, M.-T. Gomoiu, A. Cociasu, L. Popa and B. Wehrli

Goal:
Keywords: benthic fluxes; nutrients; oxygen; benthic fauna; Black Sea


citation:
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (2002) 54, 473–499

Title:
Modelling the Danube-influenced North-western Continental Shelf of the Black Sea. II: Ecosystem Response to Changes in Nutrient Delivery by the Danube River after its Damming in 1972

Authors:
C. Lancelot, J. Staneva, D. Van Eeckhout, J.-M. Beckers and E. Stanev

Goal:
Keywords: eutrophication; ecological modelling; Black Sea; Danube


citation:
Water Science and Technology Vol 44 No 11–12 pp 117–122 © IWA Publishing 2001

Title:
The Everglades Nutrient Removal Project test cells: STA optimization – status of the research at the north site


citation:
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (2002) 54, 321–336

Title:
Biogeochemical Transformations of Inorganic Nutrients in the Mixing Zone between the Danube River and the North-western Black Sea

Authors:
O. Ragueneau, C. Lancelot, V. Egorov, J. Vervlimmeren, A. Cociasu, G. De´liat , A. Krastev, N. Daoud, V. Rousseau, V. Popovitchev, N. Brion, L. Popa and G. Cauwet

Goal:
Keywords: Danube; north-western Black Sea; nutrients; phytoplankton


Title:
Setting goals and measuring success: linking patterns and processes in stream restoration

Goal:
Key words: restoration, ecosystem structure, ecosystem function, river, biofilm, DOC


citation:
Diffuse Pollution Conference Dublin 2003

Title:
NUTRIENT EMISSIONS FROM DIFFUSE AND POINT SOURCES INTO THE RIVER DANUBE AND ITS MAIN TRIBUTARIES FOR THE PERIOD OF 1998-2000 – RESULTS AND PROBLEMS.

Authors:
Heide Schreiber, Horst Behrendt, Lucian Theodor Constantinescu, Irena Cvitanic, Dumitru Drumea, Dalila Jabucar, Stanislav Juran, Beata Pataki, Sergej Snishko and Matthias Zessner


citation:
Observatorio Medioambiental 2001, número 4, 373-402


Title:
Basic requirements for the assessment and management of large international water systems: Danube river/ Black Sea

Goal:
Danube river, nutrients, heavy metals, ecological value, monitoring, carrying capacity, delta


Title:
Patterns of nitrogen accumulation and cycling in riparian floodplain ecosystems along the Green and Yampa rivers

Authors:
E. Carol Adair . Dan Binkley . Douglas C. Andersen

Goal:
Keywords Mineralization . Nitrification . Sediment deposition . Northwest Colorado . Primary succession


Title:
Hydrology, nutrient processes and vegetation in floodplain wetlands


Title:
Rapid nitrate loss and denitrification in a temperate river floodplain

Goal:
Key words: Denitrification, Flooding, Mass balance, Nitrogen, Retention, Wisconsin River


citation:
J. ENVIRON. QUAL., VOL. 32, JULY–AUGUST 2003

Title:
Nutrient and Sediment Removal by a Restored Wetland Receiving Agricultural Runoff

Authors:
Thomas E. Jordan, Dennis F. Whigham, Kirsten H. Hofmockel, and Mary A. Pittek


Title:
Stable soil nitrogen accumulation and flexible organic matter stoichiometry during primary floodplain succession

Authors:
JASON P. KAYE, DAN BINKLEY and CHARLES RHOADES

Goal:
Key words: 15Nitrogen, Alaska, Ecosystem stoichiometry, Nitrogen retention, Primary succession, Stable nitrogen, Tanana River


citation:
Int. Conference "Towards national flood reduction strategies " Warsaw

Title:
Functioning and importance of lowland river floodplains as sinks for sediment, organic matter and nutrient during flooding


citation:
Ecological Engineering 25 (2005) 510–527

Title:
Creating riverine wetlands: Ecological succession, nutrient retention, and pulsing effects

Authors:
William J. Mitsch, Li Zhang, Christopher J. Anderson, Anne E. Altor, Maria E. Hern´andez

Goal:
Keywords: Created wetlands; Wetland restoration; Floodplain wetlands; Wetland succession; Olentangy River Wetland Research Park


Title:
Biogeochemical and nutrient removal patterns of created riparian wetlands: Fifth-year results

Authors:
William J. Mitsch, Naiming Wang, Virginie Bouchard, Melanie Ford, and Kevin Mohler


Title:
The importance of accumulated organic matter in nutrient transport and storage in floodplains


citation:
J. ENVIRON. QUAL., VOL. 32, MARCH–APRIL 2003

Title:
Nutrient Transport in a Restored Riparian Wetland

Authors:
G. Vellidis, R. Lowrance, P. Gay, and R. K. Hubbard


Title:
Removal of Organic Matter and Nutrients from Urban Wastewater by Using an Experimental Emergent Aquatic Macrophyte System.

Design of study:
experimental tanks, 3 per species, 3 different flow rates, samples fortnightly integrated along 24h

Parameter:
TSS, COD, BOD, N fractions, TP, coliforms, streptococci


Title:
Inventories of point and diffuse sources and estimated nutrient loads - a comparison for different river basins in central europe

Goal:
comparison of emissions and loads of P and N; to find the driving forces which control the amount of retention/loss processes within the basin

Design of study:
Method to estimate different pathways of diffuse emission Werner et al (1991)                datas used from literature


Title:
Retention of nutrients in river systems: dependence on specific runoff and hydraulic load.

Goal:
comparison of nutrient imput and nutrient load

Design of study:
total nutrient imputs of several river basins, datas used from published studies

Methodology:
Calculation of specific run off, basin area occupied by surface water, mean annual hydraulic load, international References


Title:
Nitrate elimination by denitrification in hardwood forest soils of the Upper Rhine floodplain- correlation with redox potential and organic matter

Goal:
to find out the relationship between redox potential and denitrification and to show that monitoring of the redox potential could support management of the flooding regimen to optimize nitrigen retention by denitrification

Design of study:
to define the relation shipt between redox potential and denitrification experiments in the laboratory and in site measurment have been conducted. Soil of two different depht have been incubatred anaerobically with continouos nitrat supply. Reduction of nitrate has been compared with redox potential and organic matter content.

Parameter:
Nitrate reduction vs sample origin, Nitrate reduction rate vs redox potential, Redox potential vs organic matter, nitate reduction vs orgabic matter

Methodology:
N-compunds were analysed using coloimetric methods (Grassehoff et al, 1983), organic matter content of soil samples were analyed according to (Sanchez-Perrez, 1992)


Title:
Nitrate elimination by denitrification in hardwood forest soils of the Upper Rhien floodplain - correlation with redox potential and organic matter

Design of study:
permanent nitrogen surpuls at 4 samlpes of 2 depth profiles, 5 replicates per sample


Title:
Role of the Floodplain and Riparian Zone in Suspended Matter and Nitrogen Retention in the Adour River, South-West France

Goal:
comparison of retention capacity of riparian zones and floodplain

Design of study:
3 replicas every 12 h, 3 sites during 2 flood events

Description of Nitrogen data:
TPN, Sediment; DIN, water, NO3, NO2, NH4


Title:
Nitrogen and phosphorus removal by wetland mesocosms subjected to different hydroperiods.

Goal:
effect of hydroperiod on nutrient removal in constructed mesocosmos wetlands

Design of study:
2 concentrations of synthetic wastewater, 1 continously flooded and 3 variing pulsed-discharged tanks, monthley sampling of sediment and water

Parameter:
NH4, NO3, PO4, water and sediment, REDOX


citation:
WETLAND-SYSTEMS-FOR-WATER-POLLUTION-CONTROL-1996. Haberl,-R.;Perfler,-R.;Laber,-J.;Cooper,-P.-eds. 1997 vol. 35, no. 5 pp. 255-261

Title:
Nitrogen removal and cycling in restored wetlands used as filters of nutrients for agricultural runoff

Goal:
N retention of agricultural runoff (ricefields) in restored wetlands

Design of study:
monthly in- and output  samples during period of  rice cultivation, 4 restructured wetlands

Description of Nitrogen data:
all fractions in water, particulate N, NO3, NO2, NH4


citation:
WETLAND-SYSTEMS-IN-WATER-POLLUTION-CONTROL. Bavor,-H.J.;Mitchell,-D.S.-eds. 1994 vol. 29, no. 4 pp. 209-217

Title:
Nutrient transformations in a natural wetland receiving sewage effluent and the implications for waste treatment

Goal:
nutrient renovation in natural wetland receiving oxidation pond effluent

Design of study:
4 occasions st 4 hourly intervalls over 4 days

Parameter:
P (PP, DOP, DRP) and N (NO3-N, NH4-N, DON)

Description of Nitrogen data:
dissolved fractions in water, NO3, NO2, NH4


Title:
Nutrient dynamics at the interface between surface waters and groundwaters

Goal:
discussion of SW/GW interface with respect to lateral nutrient flow


citation:
WATER-ENVIRON.-TECHNOL. 1995 vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 40-45

Goal:
nutrient reduction in wastewater treatment plant


Title:
Input-output Balances of Nutrients and Plankton in a Flooded Area of the Lower Odra

Goal:
estimation of particulate matter and nutrients in floodpain areas


Title:
Nitrogen removal from reclaimed water applied to constructed and natural wetland microcosms

Goal:
soil dependant N removal in a cascade of natural and constructed wetlands

Design of study:
2 experiments with different  water feeding type and hydraulic retention time per wetland,  first order  rate constants predict removal


Title:
Landscape indicators of human impacts to riverine system

Goal:
rewiev of chemical biotic, hydrologic and physical habitat assessments

remarks:
large citation list of chemical and biotc parameters related to lanscape indicators


Title:
Denitrification in riparian wetlands receiving high and low groundwater nitrate inputs

Goal:
denitrification of riparian wetlands at two differently enriched soils

Design of study:
15 sampling dates during 1 year, 8 amendment samlpling dates


Title:
Kinetic interpretation of nitrogen removal in pilot scale experiments


Title:
Hydrochemische Charakterisierung und Sedimentverteilung in einem dynamische

Authors:
Hein, Pennetzdorfer Heiler, Baumgartner, Tockner, Schiemer

Design of study:
2 invest. period after flood pulse and at mean water, 7 stations, 16 samplings

Parameter:
P and N fractions (in- and organic), suspended solids, alk, Si, pH


Title:
Phosphorus movement through soils and groundwater: Application of a time-dependent sorption model

Goal:
a model of  P movement through soils and groundwater to predict P transport in the case of one-dimensional verical flow through the the unsaturated region between the soil surface and the water table and the horizontal flow through the aquifer

Parameter:
hydrodynamic dispersion coefficient, average pore water velocity

Methodology:
in batch soil-solution contacting experiments (Notodarmojo,1991) data on phosphate-P movement in soil colums for 2 types of soil (sandy, loamy soils with low and high Al and Fe content) are conducted

Description of Phosphorus data:
determination of breakthroucurves in soil colums refecting the sorption capacity of the soil


Title:
Geochemical cycling of phosphorus in rivers

Goal:
a mass-balance study to identify the processes that contribute to the internal cycling within the river, and their relative size compared with the total export of P

Design of study:
55 km reach,2 sites, 2-3 h sampling interval over a period of 100-250h (House and Warwick, 1998;Bowes and House, 2001)

Parameter:
SRP, TDP, TP massbalance; mean discharge, sorption-desorption reactions

Methodology:
sorption experiments: Langmiur form ; measurement of net uptake and release by sediments: steel trays placed filled with bed-sediment placed in the river for 52 days, afterwards in flow-channel measurement of SRP and TDP release with CaCl2 solution for 48h (Woodruff et al, 1999)

Description of Phosphorus data:
relating the P budget to river flow and antecedent conditions ther are 3 types of processes that can be disdinguished: physical process dominated, chemical-biochemical dominated, combination of physical and chemical processes


Goal:
nitrogen retention capacity in different typs of wetlands and in N loaded lakes

remarks:
Overview on several publications concerning nitrogen removal


citation:
Landscape-Ecology [Landscape-Ecol] 1998 vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 249-262

Title:
Quantifying the nitrogen retention capacity of natural wetlands in the large-scale drainage basin of the Baltic Sea

Goal:
nitrogen retention capacity of natural wetlands

Design of study:
mean measurments of  N combined with GIS database of drainage basin


citation:
Critical Reviews in Environmatal Control 21: pp 491-565

Title:
Sediment and nutrient retention by freshwater wetlands: effects on surface water quality

River/Watershed:
different types of wetlands have been analysed mostly in the US but also all over the world

Wetland type:
permanent rivers, peatlands, meadows, riparian forrests

Goal:
a review that summarizes the mechanisms of wetland interactions with sediment and nutrients that affect surface water quality. These mechanisms are sedimentation, plant uptake, litter decompsition, retension in the soil and microbial processes. Wetland storage compartments, fluxes and net retention rates are discussed for N and P.

Parameter:
N, P, Mineral sediment deposition, organic soil accumulation, nitrogen fixation, nutrient concentration and standing stock in soil  and vegetation, fluxes between water and soil and vegetation

Description of Phosphorus data:
turnover time in the litter, soil and vegetation of woody wetlands, fluxes

Description of Nitrogen data:
cycling in tthe vegetation of woody wetlands, denitrification in the laboratory and in the field


citation:
Buffer zones: Their Processes and Potential in Water Protection. Ed. Haycock, Burt, Goulding, Pinay, Quest Environmental, 1997, 155-166.

Title:
The potential role of wetlands as buffer zones


citation:
Global Wetlands: Old World and New; W.J.Mitsch eds., Elsevier Science B.V., pp 575-583, 1994

Title:
A general model of nitrogen removal by wetlands

River/Watershed:
Rabis wet meadow,        Syvbaek wet meadow,    Glumso reed-swamp

Goal:
a model with 9 state variables has been etablished to determine how much N could be removed if a wetland would be reestablished

Design of study:
invention of a model which has been applied to 3 case studies

Parameter:
Properties (per m2) simulated: Hydraulic condition [m*d-1], Production [g *a], Detritus [g-N], Max de-/nitrification[g-N*d-1];   Calibarted parameters: Uptake rate [d-1], Mineralization rate [d-1]

Methodology:
to calculate a nitrogen balance for wetlands

Description of Nitrogen data:
Detritus [g-N], Max de-/nitrification[g-N*d-1]; Uptake rate [d-1], Mineralization rate [d-1]


Title:
Biological monitoring of eutrophication in rivers

Goal:
dicussion of different biomass estimating methods


citation:
The Science of the Total Environment, 282-283, pp 25-47, 2002

Title:
Phosphor in rivers-ecology and management

Goal:
this articel analyses the effects of enhaced loads of P in rivers and the consequences for the plant community (macrophyte and phytoplankton)

Design of study:
analyzing P-sources, the availability and the pathways of P into the river the sediment and the plant-biomass

Parameter:
ratio of N/P using TIN and SRP, Psources


Title:
Phosphorus release and assimilatory capacity of two lower Mississippi Valley freshwater wetland soils.

Design of study:
soil sorbtion studies, P diffusion studies from flood water in different concentrations in the lab, field mesocosm studies


Title:
Transport and retention of nitogen and phosphorus in sub-tropical Richmond River estuary, Australia - A budget approach

Authors:
McKee, L.J., Eyre, B.D.,  and Hossain, S.

Goal:
material budgets for N and P loads, different freshwater discharge

Design of study:
1 sample during low discharge; up to 6 samples per day during floods, cross section sample during 24h, samples in drainage systems, rainfall smples, antropoogenetic sources

Parameter:
Sediment (N,P), Water, all fractions N and P

Description of Nitrogen data:
all fractions in water, NO3, NO2, NH4, sediment N


citation:
J.-IND.-POLLUT.-CONTROL 1994 vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 17-20

Title:
Nitrogen and phosphate removal using wetland

Goal:
artificial wetlands and nutrient removal


Title:
Nutrient retention dynamics of the Everglades Nutrient Removal Project

Description of Nitrogen data:
all fr. in water, NO3, NO2, NH4, total N


Title:
Functional Analysis of a Two-Year-Old Created In-Stream Wetland: Hydrology, Phosphorus Retention, and Vegetation Survival and Growth.

Goal:
develoment of wetland, plant dev. , P dynamics


Title:
Setting targets in strategies for river restoration

remarks:
Conceptional, with an example at the Neuse River, no data


citation:
Hydrobiologia 1999 vol. 410, pp. 203-211

Title:
Quantification of nitrate removal by a flooded alluvial zone in the Ill floodplain (eastern France)

Authors:
Perez,-J.M.; Tremolieres,-M.; Takatert,-N.; Ackerer,-P.; Eichhorn,-A.; Maire,-G.

Goal:
spatio-temporal nitrate monitoring of grund and surface water

Design of study:
31 piezometers sampled monthly; 8 samplings in 2 years + discharge measurements


citation:
Global Wetlands: Old World and New; W.J.Mitsch eds., Elsevier Science B.V., pp 309-324, 1994

Title:
Soil processes regulating water quality in wetlands

Goal:
to discuss the key biogeochemical processes in the soil and watercolumn as related to nutrient retention and release by wetlands

Description of Phosphorus data:
For P some wetlands finction as net sinks, others as net sources.The extend of the removal by soil depends on the contact time with the soil and the physio-chemical characteristics of the soil.

Description of Nitrogen data:
NH4 and NO3 is effectively processed in a wetland trough nitrification-denitrificaton reactions and lost from the system


Title:
Phosphorus retention in Stream and Wetlands: a review

Goal:
review of the processes and factors regulating P retention in streams and wetlands and evaluate methologies to estimate P retention

Methodology:
empirical input-output analyses, mass balances, process kinetics, batch incubation studies to estimate P sorption capacities of sediment and soil; sediment/soil column experiments to estimate the assimilation capacity of stream/wetland systems(Diaz&Reddy, 1995; Reddy et al 1995); numerical models

Description of Phosphorus data:
P;dissolved organic and inorganic P; particulate organic and inorganic P


citation:
WETLANDS-ECOL.-MANAGE. 1997 vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 159-175

Title:
Predictive models for phosphorus retention in wetlands

Goal:
soil retention capacity, evaluation of model


Funding Agency:
Ministry of Environment from the Programme of Restoration of River Restoration, Czech Republic

citation:
p. 132-138.  In M. Eiseltova and J. Biggs (Eds.), Restoration of Stream Ecosystems an Integrated Catchment Approach.  IWRB Publication 37.

Title:
Restoration of the Morava River and its Floodplain, Czech Republic

Goal:
restoration of latreral braches, hydrological connectivity


Funding Agency:
Ministry of Environment; Nature Conservation Foundation for the Management of Reserves, Czech Republic

Contact Person:
PLA Litovelske Pomaravi Administration, Forestry Authority

Goal:
restoration of small pool, hydrological connectivity


remarks:
water chemistry is mentiond as part of monitoring


citation:
Ecological-Engineering [Ecol-Eng] 2000 vol. 14, no. 1-2, pp. 77-91

Title:
The effects of season and hydrologic and chemical loading on nitrate retention in constructed wetlands: a comparison of low- and high-nutrient riverine systems

Goal:
physical water data, nitrate removal river and wastewater

Design of study:
Weekly, 2 riverwater basins, 1 wastewater basin


citation:
Hydrological-Processes [Hydrol-Process] 1999 vol. 13, no. 10, pp. 1511-1526

Title:
Spatial and temporal variations of nutrient concentration in the groundwater of a floodplain: effect of hydrology, vegetation and substrate

Goal:
groundwater: comparison nutrient red. meadow forrest

Design of study:
deep and soil- root piezometers mothly up to daily samles during flood events


citation:
Environmental Conservation, 29 (3):1-23, 2002

Title:
Riverine flood plains: present state and future trends

Goal:
rewiev of the status of several rivers, worldwide


Contact Person:
Vymazal, J., Ecology and Unse of Wetlands, PRaha, Czech Republic

citation:
Nutrient Cycling and Retention in Natural and Constructed WEtlands, pp.73-83, ed. J. Vymazal, Blachhuys Publishers, Leiden, NL

Title:
Nutrient cycling and retention in natural and constructed wetlands

Goal:
comparison of P removal of horizontal sub-surface flow constructed wetlands, efficiency (treatment, season), dependance on temperature, removal amount by harvesting vegetation

remarks:
for detailed data see other publications of the author


Goal:
riperian N and P uptake, Bufferstrip def.


citation:
Aquatic Geochemistry 7: pp 255-265, 2001

Title:
A comparison of fluvial Sediment Phosphorus (P) chemistry in relation to location and potential to influence Stream P Concentrations

River/Watershed:
Manhantango Creek catchment (7,3 km2) within the Susquehanna river basin north of Harrisburg; precipitation 1100mm, 450 in stream flow

Goal:
estimation of potental P loss of exposed sediment from the stream bank compared to submerged sediments from the stream bed if they come into stream flow

Design of study:
Sediment (upper 5 cm) were collected using an Eckman dredge in stream bed and adjecant stream banks (15 sites)

Parameter:
P, sediment moisture content, particle size distribution, sediment pH

Methodology:
sediments sieved through 4 mm; Sediment pH (Mehlich, 1984)

Description of Phosphorus data:
extractable P, organic P, inorganic P (Taylor, 2000); P bound by Al and Fe oxides (Hieltjes&Lijklma, 1980); P sorptionand release parameters (Klotz, 1988)


Title:
Al and Fe biogeochemistry in a floodplain forest: Implications for P retention

River/Watershed:
floodplain of Ogeechee River (discharge 68m3sec-1), mean channel with 33m

Goal:
examination of spatial and temporal variations in soilchemistry to determine the effects of flooding on aluminium and iron oxide biogeochemistry and inorganic phosphorus sorption capacity

Design of study:
floodplain width at studysite 1-2km and forested, mineral horizon soils collected at 7 sites in floodplain and adjacent upland for soil charaterization; 3 randomly located 5*10m sampling sites at each of 10 hydrologic monitoring stations; sediment deposition traps, water table

Parameter:
inorganic P sorption, Al, Fe, sedimentation, sediments

Methodology:
soil samples were collected at monthly intervals from may 93- june 94; inorganic P sorption capacities (Walbridge et al 1994), oxid fractions of Al and Fe(Darke&Walbridge, 1994); sediment traps( plastic frames covered with Gelman Versapor 450 filters witz 14,2cm diameters (n=24), water table measured every 2 weeks with piezometer


citation:
Analytical Chimica Acta 440, pp 55-62, 2001

Title:
High temporal resolution field monitoring of phosphate in the River Frome unsing flow injection with diode array detection

Goal:
design and deployment of an in situ flow injection monitor for high temporal resolution monitoring phosphate

Design of study:
laboratory calibration, field calibrations,a 3 day high resolution fiel trial where every 30 min samples were taken

Methodology:
comparison between flow injection instrument and batch method on 30 samples, there have been no significant differences at P=0,005


Contact Person:
Autor: René-Claude Brunet Dept.of Biology, l' IFUM d'Aquitaine; 335 rue St-Pierre, 40000 Monte-de-Marsane, France

Title:
Spatio-temporal variations in sediment nutrient levels: the river Adour

River/Watershed:
River Adour and floodplain (Barthes) ; 1km2 of riparian vegetation strip, 19km2 of floodplain precipitation 1300mm, average slope 0,18m/km; riparian zone flooded at discharge of 350m3sec-1

Goal:
analyse the C and N content of sediments deposited during flood events

Design of study:
215 tiles (0,2m2) were use in the riparian vegetation strips and floodplain for sediment samples during 2 floods;they have been situated in meadows, crop fields, poplar and oak forests

Methodology:
after floodevents deposited sediment was airdried and weighted, total nitrogen was determined by Kjeldahl method; total carbon: sample was burned in oxygen, resulting CO2 was passed into a conductivity cell containing NaOH, where conductivity measurement allowes estimation of C concentration


citation:
Regulated Rivers: Research & Management 17: pp 461-472, 2001

Title:
Hydromorphological control of phosphorus in a large free-flowing gravel bed river: the Garonne River (France)

River/Watershed:
Garonne, study site 6th order stream, mean annual discharge 191m3*sec-1, receiving waste water from a WWTP for a population of 600 000

Goal:
to relate P transport dynamics and hydromorphological characteristics during 2 low-flow periods with different hydrological conditions: 1997 low discharge and low fluctuations 33-53 m3*sec-1; 1999 low discharge with high fluctutions ranging 40-108 m3*sec-1

Design of study:
5 sampling sites within the Garonne(over a lenght of 47km): upstrem of Toulouse, downstream Toulouse but upstream WWTP, 3 sites downstream WWTP, 4 stations at 4 tributaries downstream WWTP

Parameter:
Total Dissolved P, dissolved reactive P, total P; P retention calculated by mass balance,

Methodology:
1997: estimation of P retention with mass balance on input-output analysis ; automatic sample collectors (ISCO) collected every hour 100ml over an 8 hour period; 1999: tracer was added to outputs of WWTP to detect changes within the same volume of water. Samples taken ever 12 min (100ml) for 2 hours. In tributaries 4 h mean samples of hourly 250ml for 24 hours.

Description of Phosphorus data:
TP concentration ranged from 0,19-0,27 mg*l-1  (comparable with Danube 24mg*l-1); DRP represents 70% of he surface water TP; discharge < 60m3*sec-1 uptake o transported Pby hyporheic zone and periphyton, low flow with fluctuations >60m3*sec-1 P retention is controlled by suspended matter dynamics


Title:
Spatial hydrogeomorphological influences on sediment and nurtient deposition in riparain zones: observation from the Garonne River, France

Goal:
investigations of the influence of geomorphological setting on riparian zone sedimentation during 3 major floods

Design of study:
7 riparian sites representing different vegetative, morphological and topographical conditions;

Methodology:
sediment traps, per plot 5-8 replicates;sediment sampling with core tube (Kadlec and Robbins, 1984); comparison of tile and bulk sampling; TOC (Scheffer und Schachtschabel, 1984); TN Kjedahl method (Bremner, 1965), grain size analysis


citation:
Global Wetlands: Old World and New; W.J.Mitsch eds., Elsevier Science B.V., pp 91-106, 1994

Title:
Comparative study of nutrient-related processes in geographically separated wetlands

River/Watershed:
4 american and 4 dutch study sites (each 2 forrested and 2 half herbarceous)

Wetland type:
US-bogs           NL- fen, bogs                 water from 2 order streams

Goal:
comparison of process rates related to nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in different types of wetlands

Design of study:
comparison and quantification  of functional processes like decompositon, nitrogen mineralisation, N20 emission, denitrification, P release and abiotic parameters in sites with different vegetation and soil types (peatland, fen, mineral soils)

Parameter:
N,P,soil temperatur redox, pH, soil organic matter, soil particle size distribution

Methodology:
5 sampling sites; redox measured with platinum -calomel probes, porous cups; Decomposition measured via cotton strip assay (Harrison, 1988), in situ N mineralisation and P release (Verhoven et al, 1990); N2O and denitrification in situ 24 h

Description of Phosphorus data:
total P of plants (Page et al 1982) and soil,  extractable soil P (Richardson &Marshall, 1986); P conc.of interstitial water

Description of Nitrogen data:
total N of plants (Page et al 1982) and soil,  extractable soil N (Richardson &Marshall, 1986);total N of interstitial water; Nitrate and ammonium of soil extracts and interstitial water with Skalar continuous flow analyzer

remarks:
6 weeks    (may-june) USA; 6 weeks NL (june-july)


Title:
Subsurface denitrification in a forest riparian zone: Interactions betrween hydrology and supplies of nitrate and organic carbon

River/Watershed:
Boyne River ( 5th order): Groundwater in forested floodplain; 70 km of Toronto

Goal:
to prove that subsurface denitrification is restriced to narrow zones of high activity and that these zones occure at sites where groundwater flow paths transport NO3- to burried available carbon in the riparian zone

Design of study:
research in 100-200m wide forested floodplain, transects parallel to groundwater flow, groundwater hydrology and chmistry was collected in 3 years (3-9 sampling dates in June-December 1996 and April-November 1997, 1 sampling in April and August 1998)

Parameter:
NO3-, chloride, DOC,dissolved oxygen, N2O

Methodology:
Piezometers and hydrometric methods (Devito, 2000)


citation:
Journal of Hydrology 263: pp 131-155, 2002

Title:
Riparian wetlands of the middle reach of the Seine river (France): historical developement, investigation and present hydrologic functioning. A case study

Goal:
monitoring and modelling hydrological functioning of a wetland site identify and quanify exchanges between wetland and unsatutated upper layer

Parameter:
analysing the stratigraphy of the alluvium, water budget, in situ denitrification

Methodology:
in situ measurements of denitrification rates to make estimates of its nitrate-elimination capacity, airborne infrared thermography, electromagnetic prospecting (Guerin, 1999);pieziometers, in situ denitrification (Starr et al, 1996; Bragan et al 1997)


River/Watershed:
Gjern river basin  lowland river;                       slope 0,0002-0,008                riparian areas 895ha

Design of study:
35 stream monitoring stations:  discharge monthly measured with OTT at all stations; 5 stations every 10 min water stage automatically; daily mean discharge at all 35 stat calculated; 35 water samples monthly and at basin outlet every hour-> calculate average weekly nutrient concentration; nutrient transport calculated

Methodology:
standart Danish laboratory procedures for nurtient analysis       ( Svendsen, 1995)


citation:
Global Wetlands: Old World and New; W.J.Mitsch eds., Elsevier Science B.V., pp 107-116, 1994

Title:
The role of denitrification in nitrogen removal in river corridors

River/Watershed:
riparian zone at Garonne (6th order) discharge annual mean: 200m3sec-1

Goal:
how geomorphology of the riparian zone affects denitrification and nitogen removal potential

Design of study:
comparison 2 riparian willow forrest sites: 1 bent reach with silty sediment and 1strait reach with sandy sediment

Parameter:
sediment deposition, grain-size distribution of sediment,total nitrogen, denitrification

Methodology:
(Haycock and Pinay,1993; Pinay et al 1992, 1993)


citation:
Round Table1: Riparian vegetation and water quality imporvement

Title:
Riparian vegetation and water quality improvement

Goal:
to summarize the parameters reseachers should care for, investigation the buffering functions of riparian forests

Parameter:
grass, herbs and vegetation strip, primary production, plant diversity, age structure, depth of roots/rhizosphere zones and plant community interacts with microbial communities. hydrology, geomorphology, biogeochemistry


Title:
Carbon, nirtogen and phosphorus cycling in river marginal wetlands; a model examination of landscape geochemical

Goal:
computer simulation experiment to model caron, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in riverine wetlands; eximation of floodplain restauration

Design of study:
hydro-geomorphic units were connected by defining flows of nitrogen and phosphorus between them

Parameter:
P,N,C as plant related and soil related variables

Methodology:
Flows of C,N,P (g/m2/week) through landscape classified by Kozlovskiy (1972); dynamic simulation model consisting of sub-models (van der Peijl&Verhoven, 1999); the model has 24 variables, 6 in carbon and each 9 in Pand N submodels


citation:
Ecological Restoration Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve/Romania


citation:
Transboundary Cooperation in Wetland Conservation and River Basin Management for the Danube River Basin (Phare Contract 99-0078)


citation:
Project Appraisal Document on a Proposed GEF Trust Fund Grant for Agricultural Pollution Control Project

Goal:
Carry out nutirent reduction through agriculture and wetland restorationand accompanying monitoring


Projecttitle:
Development and Implementation of a Management Plan for Srebarna Lake Ramsar Site

Funding Agency:
Ramsar Small Grants Fund for Wetlands Conservation and Wise Use

Contact Person:
G.Hiebaum, Central Laboratory of General Ecology, Bulgarian Academy of Science, 2 Gagarin Street, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria (hiebaum@ecolab.bas.bg)

Title:
Management Plan of the Srebarna Biosphere Reserve

Authors:
Hiebaum, G:, Michev, T., Vasilev, V. and Uzunov, Y.

River/Watershed:
Danube: right hand bank between km 391 and 393, DRB

Wetland type:
lacustrine, riverine and palustrine wetlands all present (Ramsar wetland types: O, M, P, Xf, Zk)

Goal:
To restore the natural water balance of the lake by establishing points of water input, quantities of water and trends in supply; undertaking thorough geologic, hydrogeologic and hydrologic research in advance of deepening the lake; and diminishing anthropogenic disturbance of lake water balance.

Design of study:
For N + P in soils and lake sediments: one sampling period, soil samples taken from 3 parts of lakeshore at 0-15cm + 15-30cm depths. Water samples from Danube, Kalnezha rivers, canal connecting Danube and lake and from lake itself.  For lake water quality: 5 sampling points, whole water column at each.

Parameter:
For soil sediments: Total N, total P, organic C, N analysis in reeds.  For water quality: N + P (inorganic), silicon, temperature, conductivity and O2

remarks:
Detailed study, but only summarised data available in management plan.  Would be useful to obtain full datasets and related scientific papers


# database_projects

Goal:
Former river meanders were to be reconnected to the river over a length of 8.5 km

Design of study:
Creation of a river engineering concept MARTHA and REMORAVA


Projecttitle:
River management of the central (inner) river Mur

Contact Person:
Amt der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung− Abteilung 19− 13C Naturschutz, Heinz Paar

Goal:
The project target is to restore and improve the characteristic river landscapes of the upper Mur valley in Styria


Projecttitle:
Combine of the flood plain−forests of the Upper Drau−river valley (Kärnten)

Goal:
Building on the hydrological development scheme, the rivers administration intended to continue revitalising the Drau by drawing on aid from LIFE−Nature to tackle the remaining 60 km in the middle part of the river which was still freely flowing, between Oberdrauburg and Spittal


Contact Person:
Jürgen Eberstaller und BOKU (G.Haidvogel)


Projecttitle:
Lafnitz − habitat cross−linking on an Alpine pannonical river

Goal:
The aim of the project is to remove obstacles for migrating fish in the river course and the old side arms, to interconnect the meanders and regenerate the desiccated alluvial forests


Projecttitle:
Wild river landscape of the Tyrolean Lech

Goal:
A central concern of the LIFE−Nature Project was to restore habitats of free−flowing water wherever the demands of flood protection and the socio−economic conditions would allow it.


Projecttitle:
Wetland management in the Upper Waldviertel

Goal:
The lease of angling concessions and the purchase of strips along the banks was to pave the way for removing fir monocultures and establishing protection zones along the edges of watercourses


Goal:
It includes a pilot project to recreate gravel banks and islets in the Danube using the 400,000 m³ gravel dredged annually from the shipping channels.


Goal:
The project has two main actions: the construction of a fish migration channel at Melk power station and the restoration of typical but increasingly rare river habitats at the mouth of river Ybbs (the second largest river in Lower Austria), such as gravel banks, gravel islands, natural bank areas and lateral interactions.


Contact Person:
BM für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft, Sektion IV Wasserwirtschaft

Goal:
restoration od shoreline zones, habitat restoration


Contact Person:
Amt der Vorarlberger Landesregierung  Landespressestelle  Landhaus


Contact Person:
Project Coordination Unit Wetlands Restoration and Pollution Reduction Project

Goal:
Existing dykes will be raised or new dykes will be built to protect private property


Goal:
Existing dykes will be raised or new dykes will be built to protect private property.


Projecttitle:
Bulgarian Wetland Restoration and Pollution Reduction project

Goal:
restoring critical priority wetlands in the Danube River basin and piloting the use of riparian wetlands as nutrient traps; establishing a comprehensive water quality and ecosystems monitoring system


Goal:
restore riparian forest along the meanders – 30 ha, involve actively local community in restoration activities, restore river’s floodplain, reactivate the oxbow lakes


Projecttitle:
Towards wise use in Lonjsko Polje Nature Park

Contact Person:
Nature Park Lonjsko Polje, Project Manager: Goran GUGIC

Goal:
The overall project objective is to develop and improve the Ramsar Wise−Use approach in Lonjsko Polje Nature Park by building the capacities of the park’s Public Service and raising stakeholder awareness


Projecttitle:
Establishing institutional capacities for protection of river Mura landscape

Goal:
To preserve and protect biological diversity of the Mura river


Projecttitle:
Preservation and rehabilitation of the Drava River basin wetlands in Baranja region

Goal:
restoration of former hydrological conditions in the Biljski rit and by the reduction of pollution coming from the point sources (pig and cattle farms) in the target area


Goal:
The main objective of the project is to decrease nutrients discharges into the Danube River and loads to the Black Sea, by improving the reduction of nutrients in effluent from wastewater treatment plants at Budapest and Dunaújváros and increasing the nutrient retention capacity at the Danube-Dráva National Park’s Gemenc and Béda-Karapancsa Region


Goal:
reintroducing environmentally friendly management: arable land would be turned into water meadows, former gravel pits, now filled with water, would be reconnected to the river and new riparian forests would be planted


Title:
The Tisza River Project-Real-life scale integrated catchment models for supporting water- and environmental management decisions

Goal:
To help saving the water resources and ecological values with the help of integrated catchment management tools and to secure the sustainable use of the resources of the Tisza River Basin.


Projecttitle:
Implementation of an innovative Decision Support Tool for the Sustainable water and land-use management planning and Flow Supplementation of the Hungarian–Slovakian Transboundary Danube Wetland Area (Szigetköz)

Goal:
The overall aim of the project is to develop a sustainable water and land-use management Decision Support Tool to achieve maximum efficiency in water policies relating to Water Framework Directive


Projecttitle:
Rehabilitation and management of the water related ecosystems in the Danube-Drava Region

Goal:
reduction of the pollution load from the Dapos, Sio, Nádor Rivers reaching Danube, protection and rehabilitation of wetlands and water related ecosystems, joint protection for rare species, forest reconstruction.


Projecttitle:
Reduction of Nutrient Discharges Project, Danube-Drava National Park (DDNP) Component

Goal:
The DDNP component aims at utilising the floodplains and wetlands of the DDNP (the famous Gemenc area) for nutrient load reduction meanwhile taking ecological restoration into consideration too.


Projecttitle:
Ecological restoration of the lower prut floodplain natural park

Contact Person:
Regional Environmental Protection Agency, Project Manager: Dediu Ciprian

Goal:
A main aim is to resolve the environmental problems caused by human activities such as agriculture, pasturage, pisciculture and tourism in and around the Park


Goal:
The overall project development objective is to increase significantly the use of environmentally-friendly agricultural practices in the project area and thereby reduce nutrient discharge from agricultural sources in Romania to the Danube River and Black Sea


Projecttitle:
Lower Danube-Green Corridor: Garla Pasareaand Slobozia


Projecttitle:
Hydrological scenarios for ecological restoration in the Danube Delta

Funding Agency:
Ministry of Environment and Water Management


Projecttitle:
Restoration of Babina and Cernovca polders

Goal:
reconnecting the system to the river through inlets & outlets The result, two years after flooding, a mosaic of wetlands, depending on the Danube flood pulse


Projecttitle:
Development of an Integrated Basin Management System in order to correlate water quality and quantity analysis with socio−economical analysis, using Open−GIS technology

Goal:
The project will develop an integrated information system for water management at the scale of the Bistrita river basin


Projecttitle:
The Prut Basin Wide Approach for Nutrient Reduction and Cross Border Co-operation


Projecttitle:
Management and Restoration of Meadows in the Morava River Floodplain

Goal:
The restoration of the floodplain meadows will increase the self-purification capacity of the wetlands and will improve sources of ground and surface water


Projecttitle:
Lower Dyje / Morava River System Programme

Goal:
the regeneration of river stretches and their meander


Projecttitle:
Upstream land-use Management – How to reduce upland run-off (Olsavica)

Goal:
A hydrological model was used to evaluate proposed changes in land use


