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HABITAT is spatial analysis tool to support the development of management plans. The tool is especially designed for ecological assessment to analyse the availability and quality of habitats for individual or groups of species, but it is also usefull for other spatial analysis where grid operations are needed like flood risk maps or damages to agriculture or urban areas in case of floods and droughts. HABITAT is developed by WL Delft Hydraulics and Ministry of Transport, Public works and Water management. HABITATs current developer is Deltares. HABITAT has been built around PCRaster, a software package responsible for making the map-calculations and incorporated in the user interface of DelftShell

Sections

The Ecological and Damage toolbox include factsheets on effect relations for ecological impact and damage assessment. Recent version of HABITAT can be obtained at Downloads, as well as articles and project descriptions. Tutorials, demos and user manual can be found at the Manual section. For sharing your knowledge rules look at the HABITAT Community. If you have questions or problems see the Support section.

The ecological knowledge base of HABITAT includes all kinds of effect relations on the occurrence of (indicator) species, groups species, ecotopes and habitat types in relation to environmental conditions and land use.

At the moment the database is mainly in Dutch and exists of factsheets on species related to EU Directives and other ecological indicators. Each factsheets gives general information like name, water system, occurrence and the ecological quality element of one of the EU Directives. Furthermore, a description of the habitat use and reproduction strategy is given. The effect relations indicating the boundaries of environmental conditions for the presence of species are presented either in formulas, tables or graphs. The application area and information on validation and uncertainties of the knowledge rules are given as well. Each factsheet finishes with information on example applications and references. This knowledge base is only visible for members of the HABITAT community. To join this community see the community wiki.

For questions contact the helpdesk. See user manual on how to design your own Toolbox in de HABITAT tool. Additional literature on measures and effect relations can be found on the STOWA Online Hydrotheek.

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If you have any questions email the HABITAT helpdesk

Software

To Download the software send an email to the helpdesk to achieve ftp information.
For Deltares colleagues: look the p-drive of HABITAT under software

Brochures

HABITAT A3formaat A4formaat

Articles

Wolfshaar, KEvd, Winter, ACRd, Straatsma, MW, Brink, NGMvd & Leeuw, JJd. 2009. Estimating spawning habitat availability in flooded areas of the river Waal, the Netherlands. River Research and Applications. DOI 10.1002/rra.1306 Download
Haasnoot M., K. van de Wolfshaar. (2009) Combining a conceptual framework and a spatial analysis tool, HABITAT, to support the implementation of river basin management plans. Intl. J. River Basin Management Vol. 7, No. 4 (2009), pp. 295-311 Download
Haasnoot, M, J.S. Verkade, K.M de Bruijn (2009). HABITAT as spatial analysis tool for ecological impact and damage assessment. Download
Baptist et al. (2006) Flood detention, nature development and water quality along the lowland river Sava, Croatia. Download
Haasnoot et al. (2004) Impact of climate change and anticipating flood management strategy on floodplain ecosystems of the River Rhine, The Netherlands. Ecohydraulics conference Madrid. Download
Haasnoot, M. & D.T. van der Molen (2003). Impact of climate change on ecotopes of the rivers Rhine and Meuse. Lowland River Rehabilitation Conference, Wageningen , PAYS-BAS (29/09/2003) Archiv für Hydrobiologie. Supplementband. Large rivers (Arch. Hydrobiol., Suppl.bd., Large rivers) 2005, vol. 15, no 1-4 (1 p.1/4), pp. 53-61 Download
Duel et al. (1995) Habitat evaluation procedure as a tool for ecological rehabilitation of wetlands in the Netherlands Download

Project descriptions

Seizoensgebonden Peilen in het IJsselmeergebied Projectsheet Seizoensgebonden peilen IJsselmeergebied.doc
Ontwikkeling populatie Gewone Zeehond Projectsheet Gewone Zeehond.doc

Reports

Van de Lee, G., H.F.P. van den Boogaard, W.E. Penning (2001). Achtergronddocument voor aanvulling van het habitatinstrument: 1. Flexibilisering invoer; 2. Onzekerheidsanalyse; 3. Validatie. WL rapport Q3433 Download
Haasnoot et al (2005) Seizoensgebonden Peilen in het IJsselmeergbied Download
Van de Wolfshaar en Haasnoot (2007). Toetsing response curves HABITAT Dowload
Haasnoot, M., V. Harezlak, M. Maarse, K. Meijer, M. Dionisio Pires en R. van Buren (2009) Naar een toekomstbestendig ecologisch systeem in het Markermeer en IJmeer Download
Harezlak, V. en M. Maarse (2010), Verkenning van effecten van peilstijging op de natuur in het IJsselmeer Download

Presentations

HABITAT presentation at GreenWeek 2010 Download
HABITAT presentatie Chili hydroinformatics conference
HABITAT description Workshop TBES Markermeer
HABITAT als toetsingsinstrument, Presentatie voor Regionale directies, oktober 2006
Impact of climate change and anticipating flood management strategy on floodplain ecosystems of the River Rhine, The Netherlands, Ecohydraulics conference Madrid, september 2004 habitat cfr ecohydraulics conference 2004.ppt
HABITAT, presentatie bij workshop ecohydrologische modellen, juni 2005, [Download|^HABITAT-haasnoot.ppt] Meer informatie over project, Download rapport workshop ecohydrologische modellen
Flood detention and nature development in the lowland river Sava, Lonjsko Polje, Croatia. Intecol Conference, Utrecht, 2004. Download
Cursus Inleiding Habitatmodellen voor RWS, september 2004 Download

Support

FAQ's on HABITAT
For other questions send a message to the helpdesk.

HABITAT Community

The HABITAT Community exists of HABITAT users who agreed to share knowledge on response curves, models, scenarios and projects through the wiki. After registering and agreeing with the licence agreement, you will get access to the HABITAT community wiki and its toolbox. Furthermore, you will get ftp information on where to download the HABITAT software.

To register, sign up to the wiki page and send a message to the administrators.

Sharing toolboxes

(only available for users who agree with the licencee agreement.)

Dare to Share Dare to Share your Toolbox with response curves and profit from knowledge of others! The Dare to Share priciple is derive from Soekijad

HABITAT Team at Deltares

Alex Koster	Bregje van Weesenbeeck	Gena Donchyts	Harriette Holzhauer	Maaike Maarse	Jasper Dijkstra
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Marjolijn Haasnoot	Onno van Logchem	Rolf van Buren	Ronald Vernimmen	Valesca Harezlak	Victor Beumer