RECOVER:2010 Predicting recovery in acidified freshwaters by the year 2010 and beyond

Country: EU Projects
Start Date:   31/3/2000         Duration: 36 months         Project Type: RTD
Contract Number: EVK1-CT-1999-00018
Organisation Type:  EC Project
Topics: 
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Assessment tools
Contaminated land-->Wider impacts / sustainability-->Sustainable / green remediation
Water resources and their management -->River basins
Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview
Project objectives:
Project identifies eight main objectives;    
evaluate the extent of recovery to date of acidified freshwaters in Europe in response to decreased deposition of acidifying compounds    
identify and quantify the dominant driving processes governing the timing and magnitude of recovery    
improve the predictive capability of existing biogeochemical models through enhanced process representation and incorporation of linkages between 
hydrochemical changes and biological impacts apply and validate regional models and determine spatial patterns of recovery across Europe predict the degree of recovery by the year 2010 given presently agreed emissions control scenarios evaluate the degree of compliance with respect to restoration of acidified waters as specified under the WFD evaluate the economic costs and benefits of presently agreed and proposed UN-ECE protocols by the year 2010 develop an “end user” focus-group involving National and International Agencies with the goal of increasing information exchange through a linking of
research and policy and to enhance the relevance of project outputs.
Project Summary:
RECOVER:2010 is designed to assess the impact of current and future anthropogenic pressures on sensitive European freshwater ecosystems. The proposed Pan-European 
assessment will use enhanced predictive models to evaluate the degree of compliance with respect to restoration of acidified waters by the year 2010 as specified
u under the Water Framework Directive, and evaluate the economic costs and environmental benefits of agreed and proposed UN-ECE protocols on emissions control.
Direct interaction and involvement of end-users throughout the lifetime of the project will focus the scientific effort to provide robust analysis through
which to enhance the decision making process at a policy level, whilst maintaining information exchange links to the public.
Achieved Objectives:
Different regional ecotypes have been selected to represent the dominant acidified systems throughout Europe, i.e. those which are most geographically 
extensive and numerous. These include the UK, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Czech Republic and Germany. Substantial site specific and regional data are available
for these regions and an understanding of the mechanism of recovery in these systems allows for a Pan-European evaluation of recovery response. The degree
of reversibility will be related to regional differences in catchment physico-chemical characteristics and regional differences in deposition reductions,
both relative and absolute
Product Descriptions:
RECOVER:2010 is designed to assess the impact of current and future anthropogenic pressures on sensitive European freshwater ecosystems.   
   
A list of publications is available on the project web page    
   
Paper titles:   
-Land use influences on acidification and recovery of freshwaters in Galloway, South-west Scotland.   
-Recovery from acidification of lochs in Galloway, south-west Scotland,UK:1979-1998.   
-Chemical trends at lakes and streams in the UK Acid Waters Monitoring Network, 1988-2000:    
-Evidence for recent recovery at a national scale.   
-Interpretation of trends in acidic deposition and surface water chemistry in Scotland during the past three decades.   
-Chemical trends at lakes and streams in the UK Acid Waters Monitoring Network, 1988-2000:   
-Evidence for recent recovery at a national scale.   
-Long-term changes in the water quality of rainfall, cloud water and stream water for moorland, forested and clear-felled catchments at Plynlimon, mid-Wales. 
-An Assessment of the potential impact of the Gothenburg Protocol on surface water chemistry using the dynamic MAGIC model at acid sensitive sites in the
UK. Are there signs of acidification reversal in freshwaters of the low mountain ranges of Germany? -Long -term changes in acidification and recovery at nine calibrated catchments in Norway, Sweden and Finland. -Climate change as a confounding factor in reversibility of acidification: RAIN and CLIMEX projects. -Trends in the chemistry of atmospheric deposition and surface waters in the Lake Maggiore catchment Sulphur and nitrogen fluxes and budgets in the Bohemian Forest and Tatra Mountains during the Industrial Revolution (1850 to 2000)
Additional Information:

            
Project Resources:

Recovery from acidification of lochs in Galloway, south-west Scotland,UK:1979-1998.

Chemical trends at lakes and streams in the UK Acid Waters Monitoring Network, 1988-2000: Evidence for recent recovery at a national scale.

An Assessment of the potential impact of the Gothenburg Protocol on surface water chemistry using the dynamic MAGIC model at acid sensitive sites in the UK.

Interpretation of trends in acidic deposition and surface water chemistry in Scotland during the past three decades.

Trends in the chemistry of atmospheric deposition and surface waters in the Lake Maggiore catchment

Sulphur and nitrogen fluxes and budgets in the Bohemian Forest and Tatra Mountains during the Industrial Revolution (1850 to 2000)

Recovery from acidification in European surface waters

Trends in nitrogen deposition and leaching in acid-sensitive streams in Europe.

Response of sulphur dynamics in European catchments to decreasing sulphate deposition.

Long-term changes in the water quality of rainfall, cloud water and stream water for moorland, forested and clear-felled catchments at Plynlimon, mid-Wales.

Are there signs of acidification reversal in freshwaters of the low mountain ranges of Germany?

Long -term changes in acidification and recovery at nine calibrated catchments in Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Weblink:
http://www.mluri.sari.ac.uk/recover/index.html
Funding Programme(s): 
EC Framework Programme 5
Link to Organisations:
Submitted by: EUGRIS Team Prof Paul Bardos  Who does what?  03/07/2003 17:48:00
Updated by: EUGRIS Team Professor Paul Bardos  Who does what?  03/10/2006 14:40:00