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Introduction

More and more, aquatic and semi-terrestrial vegetation (salt marshes, mangroves, floodplain vegetation) is playing a prominent role in interdisciplinary studies of recovering or threatened ecosystems and flood risk reduction. Both within Deltares and in the world around us, vegetation is a topic of interest for many different disciplines (hydrodynamics, morphology, (ground-)water quality, ecology and eco-engineering). Because vegetation modelling is a very interdisciplinary subject, it tends to fall between programmes or themes and people of different units do not always know the state-of-the-art. This wiki will help the vegetation modelling community (and other modellers) to integrate vegetation modelling tools, share knowledge and keep each other up-to-date on developments.

• On this wiki, you will find an overview of presently available vegetation modelling tools and their status as well as planned/suggested developments.
• There is a materials section where you can find illustrations and presentations.
• To see who is doing what, there are pages on people involved internally and on co-operation with other institutes and companies.
• To keep each other up-to-date, there are sections on activities and ideas for developments, research and market actions.

Related Themes and Programmes

Themes and programmes that relate to vegetation modelling are:

Theme Ecosystemen en Milieu Kwaliteit:   

• Next Generation Information Tools (Nicky Villars)
• Eco-Engineering (Tom Buijse)
• Eco-infrastructure (Victor Beumer)
• Ecosystem Services (Suzanne vd Meulen)                       
• Van Perceel naar Zee (Leonard Oste)

Thema Water Veiligheid:      

• Systeemgedrag Kust (Ad vd Spek)
• Event-driven morphodynamics (Ap van Dongeren)