RT journal article
T1 Creating a safe operating space for wetlands in a changing climate
A1 Green, Andy J
A1 Alcorlo, Paloma
A1 Peeters, Edwin THM
A1 Morris, Edward P.
A1 Espinar, José L
A1 Bravo-Utrera, Miguel Angel
A1 Bustamante, Javier
A1 Díaz-Delgado, Ricardo
A1 Koelmans, Albert A
A1 Mateo, Rafael
A1 Mooij, Wolf M
A1 Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Miguel
A1 van Nes, Egbert H
A1 Scheffer, Marten
A2 Biología
K1 wetland
K1 Doñana
K1 climate change
K1 eutrophication
K1 water
K1 coastal
K1 ecology
AB Many of the world's wetlands may be profoundly affected by climate change over the coming decades. Although wetland managers may have little control over the causes of climate change, they can help to counteract its effects through local measures. This is because direct anthropogenic impacts, such as water extraction and nutrient loading, work in concert with climate change to damage wetlands. Control of these local stressors may therefore ameliorate undesired effects of climate change, such as a shift towards dominance by invasive floating plants, increasingly frequent cyanobacteria blooms, or extinction of key species. Using the iconic Doñana wetlands in Spain as a case study, we illustrate how the concept of creating a “safe operating space” may be implemented to better ensure that ecosystems do not surpass thresholds for collapse during an era of global change.
SN 1540-9309
YR 2017
FD 2017-02-10
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/19094
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/19094
LA eng
NO AJG was supported by a WIMEK grant for a researchstay at WUR. EPM was supported by a JAE DOCTORES2010 contract funded by the European Union (EuropeanSocial Fund, ESF2007-­2013) and the Spanish Ministryfor Economy and Competitiveness, as well as the EUFP7 project FAST (grant 607131). Funding was alsoprovided by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 researchand innovation program under grant agreement number641762 to the ECOPOTENTIAL project. C Perennouprovided helpful comments on earlier versions of themanuscript. Maps were made using data from CHG­uadalquivir (www.chguadalquivir.es/ide) with QGIS(www.qgis.org) and the Google Maps API.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 11-nov-2026