The first 2,5 years of the project are now over and the PhD students and PostDocs have spent a lot of time in the field, measuring, collecting data and analyzing their results. In the following, we therefore provide an overview of what has happened in the individual work packages, as well as the planning for the coming period.

The work packages

WP1: Integrative water management approaches under conflicting views

WP2: Landscape stewardship for water and grassland management strategies

WP3: Hydrology of the mountainous Karnali catchment under climate and land use changes

WP4: Morphodynamics of the Karnali River and erosion of vegetated floodplains

WP5: Long-term interactions between river dynamics, vegetation, groundwater, land-use and animals

WP6: Ecohydrology of the Karnali megafan (Nepal) as related to the conservation of the tiger habitat in Bardia National Park

WP7: Effects of hydrology and management on food production and -quality for deer

WP8: Tiger prey: Bottom-up vs. top-down control of deer in Bardia NP

WP9: Variability in ecohydrological boundary conditions for grasslands in TAL nature reserves