Dam and Reservoir Inventory Project started!

A crowd-sourcing project to compile a global atlas of dams. Dams in rivers provide hydro-power energy, secure water for irrigation, and help protecting against floods. But dams also disrupt river flow regimes and connectivity, with negative consequences for...

How to model algal blooms in any lake on earth

Model approach for global modelling of harmful algal blooms, compromising ecosystem services of lakes, as used in GLOBIO​.  Algal blooms increasingly threaten lake and reservoir water quality at the global scale, caused by ongoing climate change and nutrient loading....

Towards a global model for wetlands ecosystem services

Outlines of the GLOBIO model for the impact of land-use and climate changes on ecosystem services of inland wetlands.  Wetlands play an important role in the provision of important ecosystem services like the provision of clean water to the world, adaptation to...