PREVENT – Pollution and recovery in fjord environments
Short description
Many coastal waters have been negatively impacted by human activity. Knowledge on natural reference conditions, needed for restoration of impacted waters, is missing. This is particularly challenging for transitional waters such as fjords and estuaries, which can naturally develop bottom water hypoxia to anoxia due to a complex hydrography and seabed topography.
PREVENT is a project aiming to test and develop new methods to quantitatively define reference conditions and deviations. Project focuses on benthic foraminifera (protists), which are useful indicators of Ecological Quality Status (EcoQS), and diversity is assessed by combining conventional morphological identification with metabarcoding (eDNA).
By looking at sediment archives, we also test performance of sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) to establish reference conditions.
Collaborators
Irina Polovodova Asteman, Department of Marine AvÐÔ°®s, University AvÐÔ°®
Phoebe O'Brien, Department of Marine AvÐÔ°®s, University AvÐÔ°®
Kjell Nordberg, Department of Marine AvÐÔ°®s, University AvÐÔ°®
Jan Pawlowski, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of AvÐÔ°®s,
Magali Schweizer, University of Angers, France,
Ines Barrenechea Angeles, The Arctic University of Norway