7.3 Fluvial landscapes in protected areas
River ecosystems are connected on large spatial scales, have varied drivers, strong, and often conflicting, societal interests, and interacting management processes. River or river stretches with high nature value and near-natural site conditions and dynamics are integrated parts of protected areas from high altitudes down to low lands. This session covers an insight into the systemic properties of such ecosystems and their role in and outside protected areas. Rivers and floodplains build up ecological corridors and are so in many ways connected with differently used landscapes. This connectedness should be presented by recent research and discussed as a focus of further research and evaluation.