The Wadden Sea is the largest coherent tidal flats system in the world bordering the coastal mainland the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. It is an area of land and water where the natural processes proceed largely undisturbed. This area, which is shaped by the tides, is highly productive and home to large numbers of mammals, birds and fish.
Humans have since long time had large impact on the Wadden Sea and human activities remain to be a threat to its natural values. Thanks to monitoring and research much is known about the Wadden Sea, but despite these efforts we have an incomplete image of the historical situation and a limited understanding of cause and effect relationships of this complex system.
Ecospace has many years of research experience in the Wadden Sea and many of the research projects were interdisciplinary. Subjects include foraging behaviour and spatial distributions of shorebirds, population dynamics and spatial distributions of benthos and seagrass, geomporphology and sediment properties. Ecospace combines field work and geo-informatic (mathematical and geostatistical modeling, remote sensing) approaches. Please see the projects for further information.
