欧洲的河流有超过一百万个障碍物
Barbara Belletti1,2, Carlos Garcia de Leaniz3, Joshua Jones4
1Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Nature
|December 17, 2020
概括
在欧洲
科学领域:
- 河流生态
- 淡水生物多样性
- 环境科学
背景情况:
- 河流提供至关重要的生态系统服务和丰富的生物多样性.
- 河流的碎片化阻碍了生态连接.
- 缺乏统一的障碍数据限制了欧洲河流连接的评估.
研究的目的:
- 量化欧洲的电流障碍的范围和密度.
- 确定影响屏障分布的因素.
- 为河流恢复战略和政策实施提供信息.
主要方法:
- 对36个欧洲国家的新型统一障碍数据库进行分析.
- 沿着2715公里长的河流进行标准化的步行调查.
- 统计建模以确定屏障密度的预测因素.
主要成果:
- 欧洲至少有120万个河流障碍,平均密度为0.74个障碍/公里.
- 68%的障碍物是小的 (<2米高),经常被忽视,低估了61%的数量.
- 屏障密度与农业压力,河道交叉,地表水域和海拔高度有关.
结论:
- 小而被忽视的障碍对整个欧洲的河流碎片化有很大影响.
- 需要紧急保护相对不分裂的河流.
- 对于实现河流恢复目标至关重要,例如欧盟生物多样性战略的25000公里目标.
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