The global goal to mitigate climate change (CC) is to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) by 2050; the European Union (EU) aim is to cut GHGE at least by 55% already by 2030. These ambition targets require new GHGE mitigation measures across all land use sectors (LULUCF), where wetlands, as carbon (C) rich ecosystem, can effectively contribute to climate targets, biodiversity, and water-related ecosystem services. Natural peatlands accumulate C effectively due to water-logged conditions. However, they can turn into high GHG sources if they are drained, therefore there is still need to enhance knowledge regarding how and/or how much C is sequestered or released by peatlands after their restoration, as well as the socioeconomic effects. “ALFAwetlands - Restoration for the future” (www.alfawetlands.eu) is a Horizon Europe funded project (2022-2026), which is coordinated by Luke and carried out at local to EU levels with 15 partners across Europe. It’s main goal, in short, is to mitigate CC while supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) and being socially just and rewarding. This includes, e.g., increasing the knowledge about C storage and release in peatlands, specifically after restoration. While, in terms of C fluxes, focussing on peatlands, the project scope is larger and includes additionally floodplains, coastal wetlands and few artificial wetlands. ALFAwetlands will develop and indicate management alternatives for wetlands including such that have been or will be restored during this project. Measures under this project are not restricted to ecological restoration but include rehabilitation and re-vegetation action to improve ecosystem conditions (e.g., peatland forest: continuous-cover-forestry, cultivated peatlands: paludiculture). Studies are conducted in 9 Living Labs (LL’s) including 30 sites, which are located in wetlands in different parts of Europe (north-south gradient). At the local level, LL’s support and integrate interdisciplinary and multi-actor research on ecological, environmental, economic, and social issues. Experimental data from local sites are scaled-up and will be utilized e.g., by models to gain and understanding the potential impacts of upscaled wetland restoration measures. To achieve ALFAwetlands goals, 5 research workpackages are being implemented, namely: 1)improve geospatial knowledge base of wetlands, 2)co-create socially fair and rewarding pathways for wetland restoration, 3)estimate effects of restoration on GHGE and BES, with the data achieved from field experiments, 4)develop policy relevant scenarios for CC and BES, and 5)study societal impacts of wetland restoration. The project will also encourage stakeholders to utilise outputs and support their active participation in wetland management.

If nature-based solutions that depend on ecosystem structure and functioning are going to be reliably and sustainably provided over time, then urban ecosystems themselves must be resilient to interacting local and regional disturbances and extremes. Here, we provide an urban ecological resilience (UER) conceptual framework for urban social-ecological-technological systems that relies on species diversity, abundance, and trait data to support emerging urban ecology research, provide a methodological approach for assessment, and guide planning and management for urban ecological resilience. We discuss the need for urban ecological resilience assessment, the role of species traits, and the UER conceptual framework, and provide a case study for how the framework can be operationalized using available local species and trait data. We analyzed street trees in New York City to demonstrate a methodological approach for assessing their potential resilience to climate-induced stressors including urban heat, drought, and storms.

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The NS-Miracle[1] (Multi InteRfAce Cross Layer Extension for NS) framework lacks support for AODV (Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector) routing. Research projects at Karlstad University need this feature for simulation of wireless Ad-hoc networks. The Network Simulator (NS-2)[2] has support for AODV routing, but NS-2 does not meet the requirements in simulation with multihomed nodes. AODVUU[3] is a draft compliant Linux implementation of the AODV protocol from Uppsala University. This implementation also includes a port for NS-2. This project has resulted in a port of AODV-UU for NS-2 into NSMiracle compatible modules. We have also extended the original code to support multiple interfaces. Different simulation scenarios have been created and analyzed to verify functionality of the port. However, simulation tests that cover more technologies and topologies are still needed. Features such as automatic interface discovery and AP-gateway mode are proposals for future work.