Programme

9:00

9:10

9:50

10:30

11:15

Jakub Niebieszczański: Island, lake and wetland: a palaeoecological and geoarchaeological reconstruction of Early Bronze Age and Early Iron Age settlements in Bruszczewo (Western Poland)

Jan Vymazal: Ecosystem Services of Urban Wetlands

11:30

Karina Apolinarska: The temporal variability of the Holocene CaCO3 deposition at four alkaline fens in the young glacial area of central Europe

Adam Sochacki: Subsurface flow constructed wetlands for the treatment of agricultural drainage: over five years of operation

11:45

Sambor Czerwiński: How paleoenvironmental data obtained from peatlands (and lakes) can fill the gap in archaeological and historical sources

Renske Vroom: Floating ferns for wetland restoration? Lessons learnt from four years of Azolla cultivation on former agricultural soils

12:00

Eliise Kara: Holocene wetness and growing season changes in Linje mire, Poland

Niels van Putte: Historical soil compaction impairs biogeochemical cycling in restored tidal marshes through reduced groundwater dynamics

12:15

Harry Roberts: Exploring the effects of human activity and fire on vegetation, hydrology and carbon accumulation in Mustjärve, Northwest Estonia

Andrew S. Wolff: Characterizing the Beneficial Uses of Arcata Marsh Constructed Wetland System and Wildlife Sanctuary

12:30

Magdalena Suchora: Wetlands of Western Polesie (E Poland) under the human impact – palaeolimnological perspective

Stefan Lorenz: Simultaneous pesticide dynamics in surface water and subsurface shallow groundwater in depressional wetlands of north-east Germany

12:45

Mar Albert-Saiz: The importance of water table depth thresholds in peatlands' restoration

Luca Marazzi: A Citizen Science and Engagement Approach to Tackle Plastic Pollution in England

14:00

Gerald Jurasinski: Bright spots of peatland rewetting

Maria Grodzka-Łukaszewska: Quantification the Mowing and Draining Debate using a model of the Biebrza Wetlands

14:15

Tom Heuts: Rewetting without land-use change: Have your peat and eat it too

Floris Keizer: Revisiting the Flood Pulse Concept – Hydrological processes steering spatial floodplain zonation

14:30

Sannimari Käärmelahti: Effects of different irrigation techniques on Sphagnum growth and nutrient dynamics in Sphagnum paludiculture

Goedele Verreydt: Updating an Upper Biebrza Valley model based on unique real-time measurement of groundwater fluxes

14:45

Wiktor Kotowski: Learning to think like the landscape. How to avoid trade-offs and maximize synergies in wetland restoration.

Martyna Wietecha: How to assess peatland drying using remote sensing?

15:00

Michael Manton: Time for a change in peatland forest management: rewetting delivers €100 billion more than wood production

Julian Rudziński: Change in Wetland Management over Time – Karolinów village in the Kampinos National Park

15:15

Dominik Henrik Zak: Better Slow than Fast: another Rewetting Strategy

Nik Ojdanič: The importance of environmental variables on yearly changes of reed stands – a data mining approach

15:30

Carl Christian Hoffmann: Raising the water level by simple ditch blocking did not improve nutrient retention in a fen

Igor Zelnik: Numerous gradients shape diverse wetland plant communities on intermittent Lake Cerknica

15:45

Christian Fritz: Paludiculture – future wetland generation from degraded peatlands

Marija Chobanova: Wetland area assessment in North Macedonia

20:00-22:00

9:00

Michal Antala: The photosynthetic capacity of bog cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos L.) and sphagnum moss (Sphagnum spp.) increases with warmer late winter and early spring: A climate manipulation study

Robert McInnes: Setting the global agenda for wetlands: The past and future of strategic planning for the Convention on Wetlands

9:15

Keith Edwards: Multiple environmental factors interact to affect wet grassland CO2 and CH4 emissions

Christopher Craft: Tidal Forest Productivity and Biodiversity: A Southeastern U.S. Perpective

9:30

Jan Kucharzyk: Notes on ecological factors shaping vegetation diversity of mires in Norwegian Finmark

Michał Nowak: Predicted effects of climate change on native and alien fishes in a large floodplain river (Middle Vistula River, Poland)

9:45

Andrzej Kamocki: Implementation of the Nature Restoration Law more needed than ever: A case study from the most pristine (?) riverine wetlands in Poland.

Przemysław Nawrocki: High resolution assessment of the state of river hydromorphology in Poland: legacy of thepast, challenges for now and for the future

10:00

Nina Trochanowska: Exploring the Impacts of Tree Encroachment and Mowing on Fungal Communities in Fens

Ilona Biedroń: Restoration of rivers in Poland. Experiences and challenges.

10:15

Remco Versluijs: How changed river dynamics affected flow patterns in the percolation rich fen of the Rospuda Valley, NE-Poland.

Mathais Scholz: Land requirements for floodplain development and restoration in Europe

10:30

Izabela Jaszczuk: Stability is the key – the peat formation potential of fens increases with decreasing water level fluctuations

Matthew Simpson: Transformative change for wetlands: learning the lessons from communities to governments

11:00-11:40

11:40-12:20

12:20-13:00