Current protected areas provide limited benefits for European
river biodiversity

J 2025

Current protected areas provide limited benefits for European river biodiversity

SINCLAIR, James S; Rachel STUBBINGTON; Ellen A R WELTI; Jukka AROVIITA; Nathan J BAKER et al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Current protected areas provide limited benefits for European river biodiversity

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Vydání

Nature Communications, BERLIN, NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2025, 2041-1723

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Stát vydavatele

Německo

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL, URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 15.700 v roce 2024

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Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/25:00144629

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Animals; Biodiversity; Conservation of Natural Resources; Ecosystem; Europe; Fresh Water; Invertebrates; Rivers

Štítky

14314020, rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 27. 1. 2026 12:17, Mgr. Marie Novosadová Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

Protected areas are a principal conservation tool for addressing biodiversity loss. Such protection is especially needed in freshwaters, given their greater biodiversity losses compared to terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, broad-scale evaluations of protected area effectiveness for freshwater biodiversity are lacking. Here, we provide a continental-scale analysis of the relationship between protected areas and freshwater biodiversity using 1,754 river invertebrate community time series sampled between 1986 and 2022 across ten European countries. Protected areas primarily benefited poor-quality communities (indicative of higher human impacts) that were protected, or that gained protection, across a substantial proportion of their upstream catchment. Protection had little to no influence on moderate- and high-quality communities, although high-quality communities potentially provide less scope for effect. Our results reveal the overall limited effectiveness of current protected areas for freshwater biodiversity, likely because they are typically designed and managed to achieve terrestrial conservation goals. Broadly improving effectiveness for freshwater biodiversity requires catchment-scale management approaches involving larger and more continuous upstream protection, and efforts to address remaining stressors. These approaches would also benefit connected terrestrial and coastal ecosystems, thus generally helping bend the curve of global biodiversity loss.

Návaznosti

GA23-05268S, projekt VaV

Název: Souvislost mezi oteplováním klimatu a rostoucí druhovou bohatostí bezobratlých v tekoucích vodách: od historických dat po experimenty

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Souvislost mezi oteplováním klimatu a rostoucí druhovou bohatostí bezobratlých v tekoucích vodách: od historických dat po experimenty

Citovat

SINCLAIR, James S; Rachel STUBBINGTON; Ellen A R WELTI; Jukka AROVIITA; Nathan J BAKER; Miguel CANEDO-ARGUELLES; Zoltan CSABAI; David CUNILLERA-MONTCUSI; Sami DOMISCH; Martial FERREOL; Mathieu FLOURY; Marie Anne Eurie FORIO; Peter L M GOETHALS; Alexia M GONZALEZ-FERRERAS; Kaisa-Leena HUTTUNEN; Richard K JOHNSON; Lenka KUGLEROVA; Aitor LARRANAGA; Timo MUOTKA; Riku PAAVOLA; Petr PAŘIL; Jes J RASMUSSEN; Ralf B SCHAFER; Rudy VANNEVEL; Gabor VARBIRO; Martin WILKES a Peter HAASE. Current protected areas provide limited benefits for European river biodiversity. Nature Communications. BERLIN: NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2025, roč. 16, č. 1, s. 1-11. ISSN 2041-1723. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67125-5.

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N2  - Protected areas are a principal conservation tool for addressing biodiversity loss. Such protection is especially needed in freshwaters, given their greater biodiversity losses compared to terrestrial and marine ecosystems. However, broad-scale evaluations of protected area effectiveness for freshwater biodiversity are lacking. Here, we provide a continental-scale analysis of the relationship between protected areas and freshwater biodiversity using 1,754 river invertebrate community time series sampled between 1986 and 2022 across ten European countries. Protected areas primarily benefited poor-quality communities (indicative of higher human impacts) that were protected, or that gained protection, across a substantial proportion of their upstream catchment. Protection had little to no influence on moderate- and high-quality communities, although high-quality communities potentially provide less scope for effect. Our results reveal the overall limited effectiveness of current protected areas for freshwater biodiversity, likely because they are typically designed and managed to achieve terrestrial conservation goals. Broadly improving effectiveness for freshwater biodiversity requires catchment-scale management approaches involving larger and more continuous upstream protection, and efforts to address remaining stressors. These approaches would also benefit connected terrestrial and coastal ecosystems, thus generally helping bend the curve of global biodiversity loss.
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SINCLAIR, James S; Rachel STUBBINGTON; Ellen A R WELTI; Jukka AROVIITA; Nathan J BAKER; Miguel CANEDO-ARGUELLES; Zoltan CSABAI; David CUNILLERA-MONTCUSI; Sami DOMISCH; Martial FERREOL; Mathieu FLOURY; Marie Anne Eurie FORIO; Peter L M GOETHALS; Alexia M GONZALEZ-FERRERAS; Kaisa-Leena HUTTUNEN; Richard K JOHNSON; Lenka KUGLEROVA; Aitor LARRANAGA; Timo MUOTKA; Riku PAAVOLA; Petr PAŘIL; Jes J RASMUSSEN; Ralf B SCHAFER; Rudy VANNEVEL; Gabor VARBIRO; Martin WILKES a Peter HAASE. Current protected areas provide limited benefits for European river biodiversity. \textit{Nature Communications}. BERLIN: NATURE PORTFOLIO, 2025, roč.~16, č.~1, s.~1-11. ISSN~2041-1723. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-67125-5.

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