Evaluation of restoration measures for fish in the River Meuse

Project: PhD

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Description

In the past decades, human modifications have been a huge threat to riverine ecosystems. The ecological quality of these systems, including of the river Meuse, has dramatically reduced. Fish are a biologic quality element that can be used to assess the ecological status of aquatic systems, and native river fish in the river Meuse have undergone a vast decline. The alarming status of these rheophilic species has necessitated restoration efforts of the Meuse. In the past 5 years, those efforts have been planned and occasionally also implemented to explore which techniques (and to what extent) they are efficient. The task in this PhD is to increase understanding on the bottlenecks in life cycles of rheophilic species. Central in this study is the relation between fish communities and habitat quality, quantity and connectivity.
StatusActive
Effective start/end date1/10/24 → …

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