WET HORIZONS - upgrading knowledge and solutions to fast-track wetland restoration across Europe

WET HORIZONS - 升级知识和解决方案，以快速恢复整个欧洲的湿地

• 批准号: 10048534
• 金额: $ 76.61万
• 依托单位: SRUC
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10048534
• 关键词: WET; HORIZONS; upgrading; knowledge; solutions

Wetlands are key biodiversity hotspots that provide numerous ecosystem services such as water purification, flood control and climate change mitigation due to their capacity of sequestering carbon and modulating the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. Despite their ecological and economic importance, wetlands are disappearing at an alarming rate, and are among Europe’s most endangered ecosystems, with less than 20% remaining in good ecological condition. WET HORIZONS will provide the critical flying start for the challenge of enhancing wetland restoration using a holistic approach. It will boost crucial wetland knowledge and develop sound tools and approaches for fast-tracking large scale restoration action. The project will improve the current data available from pristine, drained and rewetted peatlands, floodplains, and coastal wetlands, model the effects of typical restoration measures under variable conditions, and analyze the potential socio-economic impacts, finally delivering guidelines and best management practices. WET HORIZONS will involve citizen science for data collection and will develop digital tools for upscaling wetland restoration including an app for the visualization of wetland status and a decision support system for policy makers. This will enable to choose best pathways in wetland restoration minimizing trade-offs, including hotspot priority lists where the ecological and biodiversity benefits are greatest with minimum investment. The results will be available in open access repositories to maximize their use and outreach. There will be a constant dialogue with policymakers and stakeholders before, during and after the project, to ground-truth the findings and ensure that the tools support country-specific decision-making processes. The results of the project will be used to promote feasible and more ambitious legislation towards protecting and restoring European wetlands to increase benefits for climate and biodiversity.

湿地是关键的生物多样性热点，由于其隔离碳的能力和调节温室气体的大气浓度，提供了许多生态系统服务，例如水净化，防洪和气候变化。尽管它们的生态和经济意义，但湿地仍以惊人的速度消失，并且是欧洲最濒危的生态系统之一，剩下的生态系统不到20％。湿地平线将为使用整体方法增强湿地修复的挑战提供关键的飞行起点。它将提高至关重要的湿地知识，并开发声音工具和方法，以快速跟踪大规模恢复动作。该项目将改善从原始，排水和重新燃烧的泥炭地，洪泛区和沿海湿地提供的当前数据，建模典型的恢复措施在可变条件下的影响，并分析潜在的社会经济影响，最终提供指南和最佳管理实践。湿地平线将涉及公民科学以进行数据收集，并将开发数字工具，以提高湿地恢复，包括用于可视化湿地状态的应用程序和政策制定者的决策支持系统。这将使能够在湿地恢复中选择最佳的途径最大程度地减少权衡取舍，包括热点优先级列表，即生态和生物多样性福利最少的投资最大。结果将在开放式访问存储库中提供，以最大程度地利用其使用和外展。在项目期间和之后，将与政策制定者和利益相关者进行持续的对话，以使发现结果并确保工具支持特定于国家的决策过程。该项目的结果将用于促进可行，更雄心勃勃的立法，以保护和恢复欧洲湿地，以增加气候和生物多样性的利益。