Overview of BWZee activities:

• Workpackage scheme
  

• Project meetings
  

• Project related publications, posters and oral presentations
  


• Scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals
  
• Project reports
  
• Posters
  
• Oral presentations
  

The activities of the BWZee project are aggregated in different workpackages and these different steps can be visualised by the following scheme:

As indicated in the schematic presentation of the project, several partners contribute to each of the five work packages. The first partner mentioned between the brackets is coordinating the work package (for abbreviations see the section 'partners').

State-of-the-art:

Project meetings

(Reports are available for project partners in the restricted area of this website)

• 9th April 2004: BWZee kick-off meeting


• 6th May 2004: National workshop with terrestrial biological valuation experts (held at the Institute of Nature Conservation in Brussels)


• 16th November 2004: First official end-user meeting


• 16th November 2004: Second partner meeting


• 29th November 2004: Third preparatory partner meeting for the BWZee expert workshop


• 2 - 4 December 2004: International expert workshop on marine biological valuation (held at Het Pand in Ghent)

Project related publications, posters and oral presentations

• Scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals




• Project reports

• National Workshop with Terrestrial Biological Valuation Experts
  Brussels - Institute of Nature Conservation, 6th May 2004
  (report - only available in Dutch for project partners in the restricted area)


• International Expert Workshop on Marine Biological Valuation
  Ghent, Het Pand, 2 - 4 December 2004
  Click here for more information on Marine Biological Valuation


• First interim project report (2004-2005) (in preparation)




• Posters

• Derous, S.; Van Damme, S.; Van Cleemput, E.; Meire, P.; Stienen, E.; Courtens, W.; Van Lancker, V.; Verfaillie, E.; Hillewaert, H.; Moulaert, I.; Declerck, R.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Mees, J.; Vincx, M. & Degraer, S. (2004). REFCOAST - Typology, Reference Condition and Classification of the Belgian Coastal waters - and BWZee - A biological valuation map for the Belgian Continental Shelf. Wadden Sea Conference: European Water Framework Directive & coastal waters, Leeuwarden (the Netherlands), 13-14 May 2004. pdf version of poster (249kb)




• Oral presentations

• Degraer, S. (2004). Biological valuation. MARBEF Theme 3 Start up Workshop, Plymouth (UK), 16-18 June 2004.


• Derous, S.; Rabaut, M. & Degraer, S. (2004). Some Belgian initiatives to develop decision support tools for managers: BWZee, BALANS and GAUFRE. MARBEF Theme 3 Workshop on Information, Crete (Greece), 14-15 December 2004.
  (click here to see the powerpoint presentation)

Supported by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office

General coordination: Magda Vincx, Steven Degraer Web site and databases hosted by VLIZ Web contact email