"Good Coast Lower Saxony" addresses the question of a good coast that enables us to live and manage sustainably, safe from natural hazards and in harmony with nature. To this end, scientists from the Universities of Braunschweig, Hannover and Oldenburg are investigating, among other things, the ecosystem properties of various coastal habitats on the German North Sea coast in order to then develop possible courses of action and management for ecosystem-strengthening coastal protection in real laboratories together with the responsible state companies and the population. The project is financed by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) and the Volkswagen Foundation "Niedersächsisches Vorab". The Department of Landscape Ecology and Environmental Systems Analysis of the IGÖ is studying the structural development of seaward salt marsh margins under the interaction of abiotic environmental parameters and specific plant traits of dominant pioneer species.
Contact: Charlotte Steinigeweg
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Pictures:
1) Seaward salt marsh edge on Spiekeroog with recolonization of the adjacent mudflat by Salicornia spp.
2) Salt marshes as grazing area
3) First colonizer Salicornia spp. in front of the salt marsh edge.
