Soultan, Alaaeldin
- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Research article2022Peer reviewedOpen access
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; Luigujoe, Leho; Meissner, Wlodzimierz; Mikuska, Tibor; Molina, Blas; Musilova, Zuzana; Paquet, Jean-Yves; Petkov, Nicky; Portolou, Danae; Ridzon, Jozef; Sniauksta, Laimonas; Stipniece, Antra; Teufelbauer, Norbert; Wahl, Johannes; Zenatello, Marco; Brommer, Jon E.
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Abstract
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.
Keywords
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
Published in
Conservation Biology
2022, volume: 36, number: 4, article number: e13877
Publisher: WILEY
SLU Authors
Global goals (SDG)
SDG13 Climate action
SDG15 Life on land
UKÄ Subject classification
Ecology
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13877
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/116105