Abstract
The Wadden Sea is a changing ecosystem. To predict the further development, an interdisciplinary research project ‘SWAP’ was implemented from 1990 to 1995. Taking the large List tidal basin between the islands of Sylt and Rømø in the northern Wadden Sea as an example, we measured the exchange of water, sediment, biologically relevant substances and organisms between land, atmosphere, tidal basin and the adjacent North Sea. In case of an imbalance of exchanged components with a net import or a net export, a long-term change may be inferred. The investigations were conducted by a sequence of spatial and temporal scales, ranging from microbiological analyses in a single sediment core during the course of a tide, up to the reconstruction of the sediment balance of the entire tidal basin during the past centuries.
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Gätje, C., Reise, K. (1998). Abstract. In: Gätje, C., et al. Ökosystem Wattenmeer / The Wadden Sea Ecosystem. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58751-1_2
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