Wetland System Management
A wetland is an ecosystem that is flooded by water either permanently or seasonally. Wetlands play a number of roles including water purification, water storage, processing of carbon and other nutrients, and support of plants and animals.
Wetlands are the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. In comparison, a constructed wetland is an artificial wetland system treating municipal or industrial wastewater, greywater or storm water runoff.
It may also be designed for land reclamation, or as a mitigation measure for areas lost to land development as well as flood mitigation and catchment-based climate resilience methods. Constructed wetland systems are engineered systems that use vegetation, soil, and organisms to treat wastewater.
Areas
- Agricultural water management
- Decision support systems for wetlands
- Integrated constructed wetlands
- Sustainable drainage systems (wetlands, ponds and retention systems)
- Sustainable flood retention wetlands
- Treatment wetlands and ponds
- Wastewater treatment with wetlands
- Watercourse remediation
Research collaborators
The following links will open the research collaborators' websites
- AB Gårdstånga Nygård, Sweden, case study provision.
- Agricolus, Italy, agricultural water management technology and modelling.
- Alchemia-Nova Gmbh, Austria, development of drainage systems and nutrient-loaded biochar.
- Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Italy, wetland system research.
- InoSens Doo Novi Sad, Serbia, communication, dissemination and stakeholder engagement
- Oulun Yliopisto, Finland, hydrological processes, water management, hydrologic modelling, organic soils, drainage, environment and water table regulation.
- Technische universiteit Delft, The Netherlands, water system modelling.
- Universitaet fuer bodenkultur Wien, Austria, leading agricultural university in Europe.
- L'Université de Neuchatel, Switzerland, world-leading expertise in agricultural water management modelling; coupled surface- and subsurface modelling; hydrogeology.
- Vultus AB, Sweden. Microwave and optical remote sensing, soil moisture estimation, crop growth monitoring, and machine learning.
Contact
Dr Linus Zhang
Involved researchers
The below links will open in Lund University's Research Portal