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CONNECTEUR Connecting European Connectivity Research

Successful prediction of pathways of storm runoff generation and associated soil erosion is of considerable societal importance, including off-site impacts such as water quality and the provision of related ecosystem services. Recently, the role of connectivity in controlling runoff and erosion has received significant and increasing scientific attention, though in a disparate and uncoordinated way. There is a wealth of experience and expertise in connectivity across Europe that could be harnessed to ensure that the potential already demonstrated in key studies can be more widely fulfilled; to move forward along agreed lines and identify emerging goals, and to benefit from cross-fertilization of ideas from the fields of Hydrology, Soil Science, Geomorphology and Ecology.
Acronym

CONNECTEUR

Reference code

COST Action ES1396

Description

COST is the appropriate vehicle for funding this activity because it will gather together existing expertise to advance the field of connectivity in a concerted way. The key benefit of this Action will therefore be to establish connectivity as a research paradigm. The Action will then permit transfer of current understanding into useable science, by developing it’s conceptual basis and transferring it into a series of monitoring and modelling tools that will provide the platform for indices that will inform holistic management of catchment systems.

Developers of the project
Soil Erosion and Degradation (SEDER)

www.uv.es/seder

artemio.cerda@uv.es

Principal investigators:
  • Cerda Bolinches, Artemio
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
  • Coordinador/a Curs
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artemio.cerda@uv.es
Non-UV principal researchers

Saskia Keesstra 

Rens Masselink 

Deniz Karaca

Non-UV participating researchers

Anthony Parsons

Ronald Poeppl

Damià Vericat 

Richard Brazier

John Wainwright 

João Nunes

Tobias Heckmann 

Francesco Brardinoni

Eva Paton

Tamara Hochstrasser

Contact

artemio.cerda@uv.es

Start date
2015 February
End date
2015 December
Funding agencies:

EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020

Project type
  • EU - Horizon Europe (HE): ERC (European Research Council) projects