Chapter 4
Potential Impacts of Climate Change
on Protected Habitats
Anca Sa ˆrbu, Georg Janauer, Ingolf Profft, Mitja Kaligaric ˇ,
and Mihai Doroftei
4.1 Climate Change and the Protected Areas of Europe
Climate change is recognised as a major global threat (Stern 2007), which will have
significant impacts on many aspects of biological diversity in the near future
(Campbell et al. 2009).
Unfortunately, climate change is happening on a day-to-day basis and will
continue to affect biodiversity and, thus, induce biodiversity loss with negative
effects for human well-being and natural systems (EEA 2010).
According to the existing research, various protected areas and protected habitat
types across Europe are predicted to be negatively affected by climatic change
(Normand et al. 2007). Changes in climatic conditions will likely threaten the
A. Sa ˆrbu (*)
Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Bucharest,
Aleea Portocalelor 1-3, Sector 5, 060101 Bucures ¸ti, Romania
e-mail: anchusa24@yahoo.com
G. Janauer
Department of Limnology, University of Vienna,
Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
e-mail: georg.janauer@univie.ac.at
I. Profft
Service and Competence Centre of Thu ¨ringenForst,
Jaegerstrasse 1, D-99867 Gotha, Germany
e-mail: ingolf.profft@forst.thueringen.de
M. Kaligaric ˇ
Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
University of Maribor, Koros ˇka cesta 160, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia
e-mail: mitja.kaligaric@uni-mb.si
M. Doroftei
Department of Biodiversity Conservation, Danube Delta National Institute
for Research and Development, Babadag Street, No. 165, 820112 Tulcea, Romania
e-mail: doroftei@indd.tim.ro
S. Rannow and M. Neubert (eds.), Managing Protected Areas in Central
and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change, Advances in Global Change Research 58,
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7960-0_4, © The Author(s) 2014
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Potential Impacts of Climate Change
on Protected Habitats
Anca Sa ˆrbu, Georg Janauer, Ingolf Profft, Mitja Kaligaric ˇ,
and Mihai Doroftei
4.1 Climate Change and the Protected Areas of Europe
Climate change is recognised as a major global threat (Stern 2007), which will have
significant impacts on many aspects of biological diversity in the near future
(Campbell et al. 2009).
Unfortunately, climate change is happening on a day-to-day basis and will
continue to affect biodiversity and, thus, induce biodiversity loss with negative
effects for human well-being and natural systems (EEA 2010).
According to the existing research, various protected areas and protected habitat
types across Europe are predicted to be negatively affected by climatic change
(Normand et al. 2007). Changes in climatic conditions will likely threaten the
A. Sa ˆrbu (*)
Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Bucharest,
Aleea Portocalelor 1-3, Sector 5, 060101 Bucures ¸ti, Romania
e-mail: anchusa24@yahoo.com
G. Janauer
Department of Limnology, University of Vienna,
Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
e-mail: georg.janauer@univie.ac.at
I. Profft
Service and Competence Centre of Thu ¨ringenForst,
Jaegerstrasse 1, D-99867 Gotha, Germany
e-mail: ingolf.profft@forst.thueringen.de
M. Kaligaric ˇ
Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
University of Maribor, Koros ˇka cesta 160, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia
e-mail: mitja.kaligaric@uni-mb.si
M. Doroftei
Department of Biodiversity Conservation, Danube Delta National Institute
for Research and Development, Babadag Street, No. 165, 820112 Tulcea, Romania
e-mail: doroftei@indd.tim.ro
S. Rannow and M. Neubert (eds.), Managing Protected Areas in Central
and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change, Advances in Global Change Research 58,
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7960-0_4, © The Author(s) 2014
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