Advancing freshwater restoration

 As we begin to analyze the data from our recent survey on what makes freshwater ecosystem restoration initiatives prone to success, use of Ecosystem Services Concepts is clearly becoming the method of choice. 

90% of our respondents set goals in terms of Ecosystem Services. Another indicator of the increasing acceptance of this methodology is the recent Ecosystem Services Partnership Europe Conference which attracted over 500 participants to hashtag#Wageningen, Netherlands this past week. 

Our own University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) partner Lisa Waldenberger and others hosted a session on Freshwater Ecosystem Biodiversity and the impact of the pressures they face. DIscussions revolved around the need for transdisciplinary research to understand the various concurrent drivers at work and what they mean for the Ecosystem Services that can be delivered.