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<p>Climate change is having profound effects on the Wadden Sea, primarily through temperature and sea level rise, as well as extreme weather events.</p>
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<p>The Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation has now released a <a href="https://qsr.waddensea-worldheritage.org/reports/climate-change">scientific report on climate change</a>, conducted by experts from Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands, as part of the ongoing <a href="https://qsr.waddensea-worldheritage.org">Wadden Sea Quality Status Report </a>(QSR). The new report assesses the multifaceted impacts of climate change on this unique ecosystem.</p> <p>“Since the previous Quality Status Report on climate change of 2017, we have witnessed unprecedented changes including the first mass summer mortality of cockles in 2018, an almost 50% decrease in riverine outflows and an almost 60% increase in the rate of sea level rise”, reports lead author Katja Philippart, director of the Wadden Academy and scientist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). “Finding pathways to allow more time for the ecosystem to adapt to these aspects of climate change will be a major challenge for all involved in monitoring, research and management of the Wadden Sea.” These developments underscore the urgent need for coordinated action to address climate change and its impacts on the Wadden Sea.</p> <p>Key findings reveal the impact of climate change on the Wadden Sea ecosystem and beyond, such as temperature increases leading to species distribution shifts and ecological mismatches. The report emphasises that the changes in climatic conditions and in sediment and water dynamics have put increased pressures on the Wadden Sea ecosystem, a system that is already influenced by other human activities. In particular, the growing rates of climate change require an increasing information flow on changes of the state of the Wadden Sea as well as on the effectiveness of mitigation and adaptation measures.</p> <p><a href="https://www.waddensea-worldheritage.org/node/2148">Read full news item</a></p>
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