Floodplain management in temperate regions: is multifunctionality enhancing biodiversity?

Environmental Evidence

Thomas Wrbka⁶  Zita Sebesvari^1,11  Theo van der Sluis^1,12  Martin Pusch^1,16  Christian Damm⁴  Stephanie Hudin^1,17  Gábor Borics²  Lukács Balázs²  Sophie Jaquier¹  Franz Essl^1,14  Marianna Biró²  Maurice Hoffmann⁷  Klaus Henle⁹  Klaus Peter Zulka^1,14  Sophie G Lauwaars^1,10  Andreas Krug⁵  Viktor Gasso³  Volker Mauerhofer⁸  Robert Kanka^1,13  Christa Hainz-Renetzeder⁶  Anna Hermann⁶  Christiane Schulz-Zunkel⁹  Stuart W Bunting^1,18  Katrin Euller⁶  Michaela Kropik⁶  Stefan Schindler^1,15 

[1] Service conseil Zones alluviales, Rue des Pêcheurs 8A, Yverdon les Bains 1400, Switzerland;Ökológiai és Botanikai Intézet, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Ökológiai Kutatóközpont, Alkotmány u. 2-4., Budapest 2163, Hungary;Dnipropetrovsk National University, prospekt Gagarina 72, 49010, Dnipropetrovsk DSP-10, Ukraine;Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Geography and Geoecology, Division WWF-Institute of Floodplain Ecology, Josefstrasse 1, Rastatt 76437, Germany;Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Konstantinstraße 110, Bonn 53179, Germany;Department of Conservation Biology, Vegetation & Landscape Ecology, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, Vienna 1030, Austria;Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Kliniekstraat 25, Brussels 9500, Belgium;United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), Nishiku, Yokohama 220-8502, Japan;Department of Conservation Biology, UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Permoserstr. 15, Leipzig 04318, Germany;Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, Rijkswaterstaat, Griffioenlaan 2, LA Utrecht 3526, the Netherlands;Institute for Environment and Human Security - United Nations University, Hermann-Ehlers-Str.10, Bonn 53113, Germany;Department of Landscape Ecology, Alterra, Wageningen UR P.O. Box 47, Wageningen, 6700 AA, The Netherlands;Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences (ILE SAS), Štefánikova 3, Bratislava 81499, Slovakia;Environment Agency Austria (EAA), Spittelauer Lände 5, Vienna 1090, Austria;CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, 4485-601, Portugal;Department of Limnology of Shallow Lakes and Lowland Rivers, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 301, Berlin 12587, Germany;Fédération des Conservatoires d'espaces naturels, 6 rue Jeanne d'Arc, Orléans 45000, France;Essex Sustainability Institute, School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK

关键词: Science-practice interface;    Science-policy interface;    Systematic review;    River restoration;    Flood prevention;    Ecosystem services;    Biodiversity knowledge;    European Commission Biodiversity Strategy 2020;    Green infrastructure;    Floodplain management;    Multifunctionality;    Biodiversity;   

Others  :  801543
DOI  :  10.1186/2047-2382-2-10

 received in 2012-08-13, accepted in 2013-05-10,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Floodplains are among the most diverse, dynamic, productive and populated but also the most threatened ecosystems on Earth. Threats are mainly related to human activities that alter the landscape and disrupt fluvial processes to obtain benefits related to multiple ecosystem services (ESS). Floodplain management therefore requires close coordination among interest groups with competing claims and poses multi-dimensional challenges to policy-makers and project managers. The European Commission proposed in its recent Biodiversity Strategy to maintain and enhance European ecosystems and their services by establishing green infrastructure (GI). GI is assumed to provide multiple ecosystem functions and services including the conservation of biodiversity in the same spatial area. However, evidence for biodiversity benefits of multifunctional floodplain management is scattered and has not been synthesised.

Methods/design

This protocol specifies the methods for conducting a systematic review to answer the following policy-relevant questions: a) what is the impact of floodplain management measures on biodiversity; b) how does the impact vary according to the level of multifunctionality of the measures; c) is there a difference in the biodiversity impact of floodplain management across taxa; d) what is the effect of the time since implementation on the impact of the most important measures; and e) are there any other factors that significantly modify the biodiversity impact of floodplain management measures? Within this systematic review we will assess multifunctionality in terms of ESS that are affected by an implemented intervention. Biodiversity indicators included in this systematic review will be related to the diversity, richness and abundance of species, other taxa or functional groups. We will consider if organisms are typical for and native to natural floodplain ecosystems. Specific inclusion criteria have been developed and the wide range of quality of primary literature will be evaluated with a tailor-made system for assessing susceptibility to bias and the reliability of the studies. The review is intended to bridge the science-policy interface and will provide a useful synthesis of knowledge for decision-makers at all governance levels.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Schindler et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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