The objective of WG2 is to establish an international scientific network for studying ecosystem functions and services provided by freshwater mussels. Currently ongoing and planned activities/outcomes are:

  1. Systematic literature review and meta-analysis of available data on ecosystem services provided by freshwater mussels
    (ongoing, Leads: Alexandra Zieritz, Noe Ferreira, Karel Douda)
  2. Financial evaluation of ecosystem services provided by freshwater mussels through various approaches, including “willingness-to-pay”
    (ongoing, Leads: Alexandra Zieritz and Ana Sofia Vaz)
  3. Systematic collation of data on traditional ecological knowledge and expert opinion
    (ongoing, Leads: Noe Ferreira and Ronaldo Sousa)
  4. Studying the effects of parasites, such as trematodes and mites, on freshwater mussels and their ecosystem functions
    (ongoing, Lead: Jouni Taskinen)
  5. Development of trans-disciplinary projects to fill gaps in knowledge on freshwater mussels’ roles in ecosystem functions and services
    (planned for later in 2020-, Lead: Martin Österling)
  6. Training school on “Modern tools in freshwater mussel functional roles research”
    (planned for 2021, Lead: Karel Douda)

List of the Working Group members

You can find a list of members belonging to Working Group 2 – Ecosystem (according to COST declarations) below:

NameCountry
Dr Fundime MiriAlbania
Mr Clemens GumpingerAustria
Mr Daniel DaillAustria
Dr Grégory MotteBelgium
Dr Teodora TrichkovaBulgaria
Mr Ivan ŠpelicCroatia
Dr Karel DoudaCzechia
Dr Ondřej CudlínCzechia
Ms Radwa SaadEgypt
Dr Fabio ErcoliEstonia
Mr Panu OulasvirtaFinland
Prof Jouni TaskinenFinland
Ms Agnes BlaiseFrance
Dr Karl-Otto NagelGermany
Dr Katharina Stöckl-BauerGermany
Dr Sebastian BeggelGermany
Prof Juergen GeistGermany
Dr Dimitrios KaragiannisGreece
Dr ILIAS CHALIGIANNISGreece
Dr THEOFILOS PAPADOPOULOSGreece
Dr Evelyn MoorkensIreland
Prof Ilia OstrovskyIsrael
Dr Camilla Della TorreItaly
Dr daniele nizzoliItaly
Dr Nicoletta RiccardiItaly
Dr Vanessa ModestoItaly
Dr Halil IbrahimiKosovo
Dr Agnija SkujaLatvia
Prof Arturs SkuteLatvia
Dr Vytautas RakauskasLithuania
Dr Munjiu OxanaMoldova
Ms Milica JovanovićMontenegro
Mr Frank CollasNetherlands
Dr Valentina Slavevska StamenkovicNorth Macedonia
Ms Jelena HinicNorth Macedonia
Prof Dijana Blazhekovikj – DimovskaNorth Macedonia
Prof Stoimir StojanovskiNorth Macedonia
Dr Jon Hamner MagerøyNorway
Dr Adam ĆmielPoland
Dr Anna LipińskaPoland
Dr Cecylia WardakPoland
Dr Dariusz HalabowskiPoland
Dr Katarzyna ZajacPoland
Dr Maciej WyrębekPoland
Dr Malgorzata OzgoPoland
Mr Jacek DołęgaPoland
Ms Maria UrbańskaPoland
Prof Malgorzata GrabarczykPoland
Prof Tadeusz Zając (chair of MC)Poland
Dr Amílcar TeixeiraPortugal
Dr Eduardo EstevesPortugal
Dr Joaquim ReisPortugal
Dr Manuel Lopes LimaPortugal
Dr Martina IlarriPortugal
Ms Joana NogueiraPortugal
Prof Ronaldo SousaPortugal
Prof Simone VarandasPortugal
Dr Ioan SîrbuRomania
Dr Ira SimionovRomania
Dr Aleksandra MiloskovicSerbia
Dr Aleksandra PetrovicSerbia
Dr Jelena TomovićSerbia
Dr Maja RakovićSerbia
Dr Simona Đuretanović (born Kovačević)Serbia
Mr Slobodan ZlatkovicSerbia
Mr Stefan AnđusSerbia
Ms Jelena ĐuknićSerbia
Mr Ján ČerneckýSlovakia
Dr Miguel ClaveroSpain
Dr Noé Ferreira RodríguezSpain
Ms Keiko Nakamura AntonacciSpain
Dr Martin ÖsterlingSweden
Mr Niklas WengströmSweden
Dr Arzu FIRAT ERSOYTurkey
Dr Emel ZERAY ÖZTÜRKTurkey
Dr FUSUN AKGULTurkey
Dr Şebnem AtasaralTurkey
Dr Ümit KEBAPÇITurkey
Dr Alexandra ZieritzUnited Kingdom
Ms Isobel OllardUnited Kingdom
Prof David AldridgeUnited Kingdom
Prof Philip BoonUnited Kingdom
Dr Caryn VaughnUnited States
Dr Jan Pawlowski