Development of a concept for the sustainable management of Baltic Sea beaches
Beaches are exposed to strong natural stress factors, such as high winds and waves as well as a number of human uses. Among the latter, the intensive use by tourists competes with the area demands of specialised species. The aim of this study is to develop a concept for the sustainable management of...
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| Format: | Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:8-diss-181684 https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/diss_mods_00018168 https://macau.uni-kiel.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dissertation_derivate_00006414/Baltic_Sea_beaches_Seer.pdf |
| Summary: | Beaches are exposed to strong natural stress factors, such as high winds and waves as well as a number of human uses. Among the latter, the intensive use by tourists competes with the area demands of specialised species. The aim of this study is to develop a concept for the sustainable management of Baltic Sea beaches in Schleswig-Holstein, which includes measures for optimizing ecological functioning and integrates social demands. In order to characterise the effects of different intensities of beach use, the vegetation of 15 beaches of the southern Baltic Sea was investigated in Germany Characteristic beach species such as Atriplex prostrata, Honckenya peploides and Crambe maritima were planted in experimental fields at three different beaches and exposed to low impacts of 0, 1 and 2 steps d-1 m-². Home range, distribution and population dynamics of three species of Lycosidae (Arctosa cinerea, Arctosa perita and Pardosa agricola) were observed by mark-recapture experiments at two nature conservation beach areas at the Baltic Sea in order to estimate the area demand of beach spiders. In summary, this thesis shows the huge negative effect of human disturbance on beach flora and fauna and its impact on beach functioning. These findings encourage concepts of sustainable beach management focusing on well-constructed coastal spatial planning for areas of tourist use as well as for sensitive beach areas closed for nature conservation. Strände unterliegen extremen natürlichen Stressfaktoren, wie Wind- und Wellenenergie. Die intensive touristische Nutzung tritt in Konflikt mit Tier- und Pflanzenarten, die eng an den Lebensraum Strand angepasst sind. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist es, ein Konzept für ein nachhaltiges Management der Ostseestrände Schleswig-Holsteins zu entwickeln, das sowohl die Maßnahmen zur Optimierung ökologischer Funktionen der Strände als auch die sozialen Belange berücksichtigt. Um die Vegetation unterschiedlich genutzter Strände zu charakterisieren, wurde die Artenzusammensetzung von 15 ... |
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