SpongeBoost has introduced a new social media campaign, called #SpongeBoostResearch, which will showcase eight interdisciplinary research papers written by members of the SpongeBoost consortium. The papers address topics such as wetland restoration under climate change, biodiversity pressures on European riverine and coastal wetlands, ecosystem service assessments in floodplains, nutrient retention functions, integrated riparian monitoring, socio-economic valuation of nature-based solutions, EU conservation policies, and challenges in restoring free-flowing rivers. All of the research has been published in a special issue, titled “Wetlands in a Changing Climate”, which is part of Pensoft Publishers’ open-access journal Nature Conservation.

The eight SpongeBoost papers included in the campaign are:

• European riverine and coastal wetlands under pressure: biodiversity and climate change

• Assessing ecosystem services across scales to support nature-based solutions in river floodplains: a review of non-monetary tools

• Floodplains and coastal wetlands as nutrient sinks: a restoration perspective

• Towards effective and integrated riparian wetland monitoring in Europe: challenges and opportunities

• Nature-based solutions with sponge functions: socio-economic importance and valuation 

• Wetlands in the EU policy context

• Challenges and opportunities in restoring European free-flowing rivers

• Restoring coasts and floodplains

You can follow the campaign on our Instagram, LinkedIn, and Bluesky.

Find all the papers on our website.