Novel tracer-aided, ecohydrological modeling to quantify water storage, pathways and cycling of fens at the landscape scale (C01)

• Subject Area: Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Limnology, Urban Water Management, Water Chemistry, Integrated Water Resources Management
• Term: since 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 531801029

We will (1) advance the capacity of process-based, tracer-aided, ecohydrological modeling frameworks to (2) investigate the hydrological functioning of rewetted fens from the plot scale up to the landscape scale in terms of spatial patterns and temporal dynamics of water storage, pathways and release. We will contribute quantifications of spatiotemporal dynamics of water storage, sources, pathways and ages (which provide important hydrological indices of the timescales of water cycling and resilience to perturbation) up to the landscape-scale.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 410: WETSCAPES2.0: Sinks, Links and Legacies of Novel Ecosystems in Rewetted Fen Landscapes
• Applicant Institution: Universität Greifswald
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Doerthe Tetzlaff