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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.3390/w14121850
Lizenz creative commons licence
Titel (primär) A plea for considering processes that take place on the micrometer scale in modelling the groundwater ecosystems’ functions
Autor Schmidt, S.I. ORCID logo
Quelle Water
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
Department SEEFO
Band/Volume 14
Heft 12
Seite von art. 1850
Sprache englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Keywords groundwater ecosystem; microscale processes; modelling; porous aquifers
Abstract The largest freshwater ecosystem on earth is in the subsurface: the groundwater. It is populated by animals of almost all phyla and by bacteria, archaea, and fungi. Processes on the macro-, meso-, and micro-scale shape this ecosystem. Bioremediation, i.e., the degradation of contaminants, is steered on the scale of micrometers. However, processes that take place on the micrometer scale are still poorly understood and have not been studied extensively. They are usually lacking from models. In this communication, the plea for studying and making models for the processes that take place on the micrometer scale is based on the conceptual model of bottom-up effects of the pore scale environment. Such conceptual models may influence how quantitative models are built by structuring them.
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Schmidt, S.I. (2022):
A plea for considering processes that take place on the micrometer scale in modelling the groundwater ecosystems’ functions
Water 14 (12), art. 1850 10.3390/w14121850