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The Interreg IVB North Sea Region Programme


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Tegeler Plate

Impact on ecosystem services

The measure ‘Tegeler Plate- Development of tidally influenced brackish water habitats’ in the oligohaline zone of the Weser estuary was about the creation of estuarine habitat by transforming adjacent land into mainly marshland and intertidal flat habitat connected with a very high change in the habitat quality (Figure 4). From the ecosystem services (ES) assessment, it is concluded that this measure generates overall a positive expected impact for many ES, mainly for ‘biodiversity’, the cultural services and various regulating services (erosion and sedimentation regulation by water bodies, water quantity regulation: landscape maintenance, climate regulation: Carbon sequestration and burial, regulation of extreme events or disturbance: Flood water storage. The expected impact on both development targets (‘biodiversity’ and ‘erosion and sedimentation regulation by water bodies’) is very positive. The expected impact for the different beneficiary groups is overall positive, with a positive to very positive expected impact for indirect and future use and for local and regional use (Table 1).






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