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|a Past and future plant diversity of a coastal wetland driven by soil subsidence and climate change |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a On the island of Ameland (The Netherlands), natural gas has been extracted
from a dune and salt marsh natural area since 1986. This has caused a soil
subsidence of c. 1–25 cm, which can be used as a model to infer effects of future sea
level rise. The aims of our study were (a) to relate the changes in the vegetation, and
more specifically, in plant diversity, during the extraction period to soil subsidence
and weather fluctuations, and (b) to use these relations to predict future changes due
to the combination of ongoing soil subsidence and climate change. We characterised
climate change as increases in mean sea level, storm frequency and net precipitation.
Simultaneous observations were made of vegetation composition, elevation, soil
chemistry, net precipitation, groundwater level, and flooding frequency over the
period 1986–2001. By using multiple regression the changes in the vegetation could
be decomposed into (1) an oscillatory component due to fluctuations in net precipitation,
(2) an oscillatory component due to incidental flooding, (3) a monotonous
component due to soil subsidence, and (4) a monotonous component not related
to any measured variable but probably due to eutrophication. The changes were
generally small during the observation period, but the regression model predicts
large changes by the year 2100 that are almost exclusively due to sea level rise.
However, although sea level rise is expected to cause a loss of species, this does not
necessarily lead to a loss of conservancy value. |
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