Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Habitats and Their Effects on Invasive Plant Species in Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, Romania

Doroftei, Mihai; Anastasiu, Paulina

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“…It is possible that Amorpha fruticosa has already replaced representative areas of these swamp communities, as is the case in other wetlands [17].…”

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Particularities of the swamp vegetation from "Iron Gate" Natura 200 site, Romania

Goia¹,

Şuteu²,

Oprea³

2017

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Abstract:The swamp vegetation survey was conducted along the Romanian bank of the Danube River, in the Porţile de Fier ("Iron Gates") Natural Park area, in Mehedinţi and Caraş-Severin counties. 20 plant communities and one subassociation belonging to Phragmito-Magnocaricetea, Isoëto-Nanojuncetea and Littorelletea classes were identified. The surveys led to the identification of 8 newly described phytocoenotaxa for this protected area, with one association -Cypero-Paspaletum distichi -being mentioned for the first time in Romania. All the plant communities in this paper are documented by phytosociological tables, being accompanied by coenotaxonomic, phytogeographical and ecological analyses, in order to assess their conservation status, as the main tool for further management decision making.

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“…It is possible that Amorpha fruticosa has already replaced representative areas of these swamp communities, as is the case in other wetlands [17].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Particularities of the swamp vegetation from "Iron Gate" Natura 200 site, Romania

Goia¹,

Şuteu²,

Oprea³

2017

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“…Acknowledging the magnitude of the (potential) impacts ITPS have on protected areas, recent studies have turned their attention to the assessment of invasive species in Natura 2000 sites and large protected areas focusing on complex evaluations (e.g. origin and geographic distribution, biology, habitat description) (Dumitrașcu et al, 2011(Dumitrașcu et al, , 2012(Dumitrașcu et al, , 2014Dumitrașcu and Grigorescu, 2016;Grigorescu et al, 2016b;Niculescu et al, 2016;Sămărghiţan et al, 2018); chorology and ecology (Doroftei, 2009a, b); biological indicators ; climate change-related impacts (Doroftei and Anastasiu, 2014); modelling the potential distribution (Kucsicsa et al, 2013(Kucsicsa et al, , 2016(Kucsicsa et al, , 2018Grigorescu et al, 2016a, c). Thus, among all analysed ITPS in the Romanian protected areas, ten have been identified as the most widespread, of which the most studied were Amorpha fruticosa, Ailanthus altissima, Acer negundo, Fallopia japonica and Impatiens glandulifera (Dumitrascu and Grigorescu, 2016).…”

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“…(Grigorescu et al, 2016a). Furthermore, the species also ranks among the most abundant invasive species in Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve where it is regularly found around lakes and river banks and in localities (Doroftei, 2009b;Doroftei and Anastasiu, 2014). Fallopia japonica (the Japanese knotweed), a.k.a.…”

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Invasive terrestrial plant species in the Romanian protected areas. A review of the geographical aspects

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Geographical factors play an essential role in the occurrence and spread of invasive species worldwide, and their particular analysis at regional and local scales becomes important in understanding species development patterns. The present paper discusses the relationships between some key geographical factors and the Invasive Terrestrial Plant Species (ITPS) distribution, and their environmental implications in a few protected areas in Romania. The authors focused their attention on three of the foremost invaders (i.e. Amorpha fruticosa, Ailanthus altissima and Fallopia japonica) making use of the information provided by the scientific literature and some illustrative examples developed in the framework of the FP7 enviroGRIDS project. The study is aimed to increase the knowledge of the ITPS and, specifically, to contribute to the geographical understanding of the role played by the driving factors in their distribution and spread in various habitats and ecosystems. The results will further support the control efforts in protected areas where, often, valuable native species are at risk of being replaced by non-native species.

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“…WFD, despite of being a universal approach to water bodies conservation and management, does not comprehensively consider climate change as an aspect that might influence achievements of its goals to rivers or wetlands (Wilby et al 2006). Such a status should be revisited, as projected climate-change-induced pressures to habitats reported in both European (Okruszko et al 2011;Schneider et al 2011) and regional context (Doroftei and Anastasiu 2014;Grygoruk et al 2014;Kaligaric and Ivajnšic 2014;Malatinszky et al 2014), together with actions undertaken by stakeholders mitigating climate change influences are foreseen to play a very important role in protected areas management in the near future. As reported by Grygoruk et al (2014), not only direct pressures originating from the changing climate (such as global warming, flooding, droughts) challenge wetlands by affecting water balance and habitat conditions.…”

Section: Climate Changementioning

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Wetlands and Water Framework Directive: Protection, Management and Climate Change

Ignar

Grygoruk

2015

GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences

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In this chapter the general context of protection and management of wetlands in legal frameworks of water management is discussed. We present the background of the book, referring to its main conclusions and achievements. The main finding is that the existing regulations of the European environmental policy are sufficiently accurate and provide adequate tools to maintain good status of ecosystems as well as to restore the degraded ecosystems that provide a potential of reaching the favourable environmental status. However, implementation of these regulations requires attention and enhancement, as in selected cases it fails to fulfil their environmental objectives. We state that the main attention of the EU environmental policy the day before, when the good status of waters and aquatic ecosystems demanded by the water framework directive has to be met by the member states, should pay special attention at assessment of the implementation efficiency of existing legal regulations rather than at the development of the new ones. We conclude that in order to succeed with the adaptive management of wetlands facing climate change, social sciences should be more deeply involved in EU environmental policy inducing attitudes of managing authorities and users of valuable wetlands.

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Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Habitats and Their Effects on Invasive Plant Species in Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, Romania

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Particularities of the swamp vegetation from "Iron Gate" Natura 200 site, Romania

Particularities of the swamp vegetation from "Iron Gate" Natura 200 site, Romania

Invasive terrestrial plant species in the Romanian protected areas. A review of the geographical aspects

Wetlands and Water Framework Directive: Protection, Management and Climate Change

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