Pan-European Use Case
The pan-European region use case aims to establish workflows and analytical pathways using AquaINFRA services to analyse freshwater biodiversity related to riverine ecosystems.
These tools will examine species distributions, as well as drivers and pressures affecting freshwater biodiversity in Europe. The workflows for the pan-European region will directly build on the Hydrography90m dataset that is integrated into the AquaINFRA services and enables the consideration of dendritic river network structures across Europe.
The research questions addressed in this use case are:
Are data quality checks necessary in distribution models for species records collated from open-source repositories?
How do human pressures such as barriers, land use, and climate change affect the functional diversity of riverine freshwater fishes in European river basins?
How do barriers affect the longitudinal connectivity of river networks in relation to migratory and invasive species?
Other Regions
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Baltic Sea
In the Baltic Sea region, the use cases aim to demonstrate the use of the Architecture Implementation Plan and Virtual Research Environment to assess the state of eutrophication in the Baltic marine environment, the level of land-based nutrient load and its environmental effects and costs of measures to reduce the load and mitigate eutrophication. Datasets will include data obtained through monitoring marine environment and rivers, satellite observations, modelling and observation of effects of undertaken environmental measures, their social and economic effects and many others. In total, three use cases are being implemented in the Baltic Sea region. These use cases include the Daugava River catchment and the Gulf of Riga, the Vantaanjoki River basin and the Gulf of Finland and environmental management data in Finland and Latvia.
