Indicators for Monitoring Climate Change-Induced Effects on Habitats – A Wetlands Perspective

摘要: Indicators for tracking ecological effects of climate change in habitats provide important management and monitoring tools nature conservation service protected areas. One the objectives HABIT-CHANGE project was to propose operational indicators climate-induced changes based on ecosystem relevance, reliability ease use land managers. Initially established lists covered more than 100 indicative parameters including a group those assigned climatic, hydrological as well purported specific ecosystems such wetlands, meadows, forests mountains. Environmental at larger scales, landscapes total areas, can be captured by indices built data from remote sensing, whereas detecting habitat local level, further detailed procedures must carried out with complex methods measurements parameters. This work focuses level quality indication assessment change-induced future trends. With aid criteria evaluating indicator integrity, relevance suitability decision support, several were selected purpose indicating within investigation It found that wetland metrics soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition, CO2 emission, carbon content (SCC), nitrogen its mineral form, concentration composition solutions presence numbers nitrophytes are strongly change. Collectively, above mentioned represent which may used integrated bioindication effects, e.g. To render it available site managers, bioindicatory information resulting shall processed visualised form maps models.