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Habit-Change - Adaptive Management of Climate-induced Changes of Habitat Diversity in Protected Areas (EU)
Title: | Habit-Change -
Adaptive Management of Climate-induced Changes of Habitat Diversity in
Protected
Areas |
Funding: | Interreg
IV B Central Europe Programme |
Partners: | Lead:
Leibnitz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung Participitation of 17 European Project Partners (www.habit-change.eu [1]) |
Duration: | 3/1/2010
- 2/28/2013 |
Research
Associate: | Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Schmidt
[2] |
Project
Lead: | Prof. Dr. Birgit Kleinschmit [3] Dr. Michael Förster [4] |
Description
Climate change will become an additional important
driver influencing habitats and their quality in the next decades.
Thus, the European network of protected sites is challenged by
anthropogenic actions and climate change (CC). Nature conservation
agencies have to cope with modifications of habitat composition
induced by CC and the fact that the targeted conservation may no
longer be valid. Scenarios and indicators applied for the local scale
are missing and likewise there is a lack of knowledge. The direction
of future changes and how this matches with a long-term impact of
management measures are unclear. At site-level, precipitation might
de- or increase and shift its seasonality, leading to different
preconditions for the remaining natural habitats, especially
water-based ecosystems such as wetlands and rivers but also the
composition of forested areas and grasslands. The main challenges are
to monitor changes through time (history, present state, short term
future, long term future) and to adapt management strategies and to
consider flexible responses to ongoing developments.
The
project's overall objective is to evaluate, enhance and adapt existing
management and conservation strategies in protected sites to
pro-actively respond on likely influences of CC as a threat to habitat
integrity and diversity. Furthermore, a monitoring concept is being
developed to detect changes caused either by human activity or climate
change effects. This will be a very valuable information and tool
especially for the administrations of nature protected
areas
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