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The project aims at bridging the gap between the smaller scales at which processes operate and are measured, and the larger scales relevant for management, by explicitly studying the small scale processes and  by integrating them in mathematical models. \r\n\r\nThe project's work programme is centered around five joint field campaigns by all participants. The first four of these are executed on a tidal flat in the Westerschelde estuary (S.W. Netherlands). Validation of the models and predictions will be done during a final campaign in a different estuary. The research is subdivided into three work packages. The first package focuses on the quantification and prediction of benthic-pelagic exchange mechanisms involving carbon and nutrients. Physical and biological processes in this exchange are considered; the processes are framed in the context of a detailed hydrodynamical modelling of the flat. The second package considers the processes of production, mineralised and transformation of organic material and nutrients within the sediments. Attention will be paid to primary production and to grazing processes within the benthic small food web. The sensitivity of the overall system to the dynamics of these internal interactions within the benthic system will be investigated. The third package integrates the measurements performed in the first and second packages into detailed mathematical process models for the biogeochemical processes in tidal flats sediments. The process models will be integrated into a general ecosystem model. 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