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Join project: COMTESS - Sustainable COastal Land Management: Trade-offs in EcoSystem Services
Contract period : - 2015
Climate change threatens coastal areas of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea primarily through accelerated sea-level rise, increasing storm surges, and increasing winter rainwater discharge. Accelerating sea-level rise and changes in hydrological cycles are likely to affect coastal ecosystems and may restrict the efficiency of existing protective measures in the future. Therefore, the collaborative research project COMTESS will perform an inter- and transdisciplinary investigation of four land management scenarios, applied to a North Sea and a Baltic Sea coastal region in Germany. COMTESS will quantify and evaluate the performance of multiple ecosystem functions and services in each scenario in socio-economic and ecological terms.
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Coordination
Saltwater and freshwater dynamics
Climate-related gas emissions and carbon sequestration
Ecosystem functions and ecosystem services of vegetation
Plant-bird interactions
Modelling of the ecosystem services provided by the vegetation
Economic risk-analysis and in-value ratio
Action processes of the actors
Trade-offs in ecosystem services
