Soultan, Alaaeldin
- Institutionen för ekologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Forskningsartikel2022Vetenskapligt granskadÖppen tillgång
Protected area characteristics that help waterbirds respond to climate warming
Gaget, Elie; Johnston, Alison; Pavon-Jordan, Diego; Lehikoinen, Aleksi S.; Sandercock, Brett K.; Soultan, Alaaeldin; Bozic, Luka; Clausen, Preben; Devos, Koen; Domsa, Cristi; Encarnacao, Vitor; Farago, Sandor; Fitzgerald, Niamh; Frost, Teresa; Gaudard, Clemence; Gosztonyi, Livia; Haas, Fredrik; Hornman, Menno; Langendoen, Tom; Ieronymidou, Christina;
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Sammanfattning
Protected area networks help species respond to climate warming. However, the contribution of a site's environmental and conservation-relevant characteristics to these responses is not well understood. We investigated how composition of nonbreeding waterbird communities (97 species) in the European Union Natura 2000 (N2K) network (3018 sites) changed in response to increases in temperature over 25 years in 26 European countries. We measured community reshuffling based on abundance time series collected under the International Waterbird Census relative to N2K sites' conservation targets, funding, designation period, and management plan status. Waterbird community composition in sites explicitly designated to protect them and with management plans changed more quickly in response to climate warming than in other N2K sites. Temporal community changes were not affected by the designation period despite greater exposure to temperature increase inside late-designated N2K sites. Sites funded under the LIFE program had lower climate-driven community changes than sites that did not received LIFE funding. Our findings imply that efficient conservation policy that helps waterbird communities respond to climate warming is associated with sites specifically managed for waterbirds.
Nyckelord
climate adaptation; colonization; conservation policy; distribution change; EU Birds Directive; LIFE program; wetland; adaptacion climatica; cambios en la distribucion; colonizacion; Directiva de Aves de la UE; humedal; politicas de conservacion; programa LIFE
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Conservation Biology
2022, volym: 36, nummer: 4, artikelnummer: e13877
Utgivare: WILEY
SLU författare
Globala målen (SDG)
SDG13 Bekämpa klimatförändringarna
SDG15 Ekosystem och biologisk mångfald
UKÄ forskningsämne
Ekologi
Publikationens identifierare
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13877
Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/116105