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Potential of riparian vegetation to mitigate effects of climate change on biological assemblages of small and medium sized running waters

Project management Rauch Johann Peter
organizational unit Institute of Soil Bioengineering and Landscape Construction
duration 01.03.2012 to- 31.03.2015
Research project (§ 26 & § 27)
Program Austrian Climate Research Programme (ACRP) - Individual Project
Funder National: Institutions under Public Law
Competencies 
  • Wasser - Atmosphäre - Umwelt
  • Lebensraum und Landschaft

Abstract

Climate scenarios of the IPCC for the Central European area expect that the Climate (2077 – 2099) will warm up in all seasons. Especially extreme events will increase: Summer maximum temperature will rise, a higher frequency of heavy rainfall events is expected. Global warming has already shown impacts on European freshwater ecosystems and the services they provide to the humans. The objectives of BIO_CLIC are (1) to identify and understand the potential of riparian vegetation mitigating climate change effects on water temperature and following the impacts on benthic invertebrates and fish assemblages and (2) to support river managers in implementing an integrative guideline for sustainable river restoration towards climate change adaptation, ecological services and socio-economic consequences. Based on field studies that describe habitat characteristics, energy balance of the river, water temperature and the micro scale climate change will be modelled. Further the influence of shading on water temperature in future climate scenarios will be tested. As a consequence empirical and conceptional models will assess ecological and climate effects on biota to provide adaption strategies and define river restoration (mitigation) measurements for small and medium sized Austrian lowland rivers.

keywords
  •  energy balance model  
  •  river ecology  
  •  microclimate and climate change  
  •  benthic invertebrates  
  •  Fish  
  •  shading  
  •  riparian vegetation  
  •  microclimate  
  •  climate change  

Publications

Project staff

Johann Peter Rauch

Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Johann Peter Rauch
hp.rauch@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-87404

Project Leader

01.03.2012 - 31.03.2015

Florian Borgwardt

Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Florian Borgwardt
florian.borgwardt@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-33053, 81234

Project Staff

01.03.2012 - 31.03.2015

Florian Dossi

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Florian Dossi
Tel: +43 1 47654-81211

Project Staff

01.03.2012 - 31.03.2015

Herbert Formayer

Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Herbert Formayer
herbert.formayer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81415

Project Staff

01.03.2012 - 31.03.2015

Wolfram Graf

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wolfram Graf
wolfram.graf@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81221

Project Staff

01.03.2012 - 31.03.2015

Gerda Kalny

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Gerda Kalny

Project Staff

01.03.2012 - 31.03.2015

David Leidinger

Mag.rer.nat. David Leidinger
david.leidinger@boku.ac.at

Project Staff

01.03.2012 - 31.03.2015

Patrick Leitner

Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Patrick Leitner
patrick.leitner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81243

Project Staff

01.03.2012 - 31.03.2015

Andreas Melcher

Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Andreas Melcher
andreas.melcher@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93411

Project Staff

01.03.2012 - 31.03.2015

Carina Seliger

DDipl.Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Carina Seliger
carina.seliger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81218

Project Staff

01.03.2012 - 31.03.2015

Philipp Weihs

Ao.Univ.Prof. Mag.rer.nat. Dr.rer.nat. Philipp Weihs
philipp.weihs@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81424

Project Staff

01.03.2012 - 31.03.2015