Chapter 6
Indicators for Monitoring
Climate Change-Induced Effects
on Habitats – A Wetlands Perspective
Jadwiga Sienkiewicz, Apolonia Ostrowska, Katrin Vohland,
Lars Stratmann, and Mateusz Grygoruk
6.1 Introduction
Climate change is expected to become a major threat to biodiversity by influencing
the quality of landscapes and habitats. Thus monitoring techniques need to be
adapted to provide information on climate change induced impacts in habitat
conditions in the long run in order to be able to adapt management strategies in
respective protected areas. Climate change may affect many ecosystem functions;
consequently, specific indicators of symptoms of ecosystem degradation shall
address various ecosystem properties and effects due to different pressures
J. Sienkiewicz (*)
Department of Nature and Landscape Conservation,
Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institute,
ul. Krucza 5/11d, 00-548 Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: jadwiga.sienkiewicz@ios.edu.pl
A. Ostrowska
Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institutee,
ul. Krucza 5/11, 00-548 Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: bz@ios.edu.pl
K. Vohland
Museum fu ¨r Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity,
Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
e-mail: katrin.vohland@mfn-berlin.de
L. Stratmann
Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development,
Weberplatz 1, 01217 Dresden, Germany
e-mail: l.stratmann@ioer.de
M. Grygoruk
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences,
ul. Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
Biebrza National Park, Osowiec-Twierdza 8, 19-110 Gonia ˛dz, Poland
e-mail: m.grygoruk@levis.sggw.pl
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_6, © The Author(s) 2014
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Indicators for Monitoring
Climate Change-Induced Effects
on Habitats – A Wetlands Perspective
Jadwiga Sienkiewicz, Apolonia Ostrowska, Katrin Vohland,
Lars Stratmann, and Mateusz Grygoruk
6.1 Introduction
Climate change is expected to become a major threat to biodiversity by influencing
the quality of landscapes and habitats. Thus monitoring techniques need to be
adapted to provide information on climate change induced impacts in habitat
conditions in the long run in order to be able to adapt management strategies in
respective protected areas. Climate change may affect many ecosystem functions;
consequently, specific indicators of symptoms of ecosystem degradation shall
address various ecosystem properties and effects due to different pressures
J. Sienkiewicz (*)
Department of Nature and Landscape Conservation,
Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institute,
ul. Krucza 5/11d, 00-548 Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: jadwiga.sienkiewicz@ios.edu.pl
A. Ostrowska
Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institutee,
ul. Krucza 5/11, 00-548 Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: bz@ios.edu.pl
K. Vohland
Museum fu ¨r Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity,
Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany
e-mail: katrin.vohland@mfn-berlin.de
L. Stratmann
Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development,
Weberplatz 1, 01217 Dresden, Germany
e-mail: l.stratmann@ioer.de
M. Grygoruk
Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences,
ul. Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
Biebrza National Park, Osowiec-Twierdza 8, 19-110 Gonia ˛dz, Poland
e-mail: m.grygoruk@levis.sggw.pl
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_6, © The Author(s) 2014
77