8.3 Biodiversity - conservation in protected areas - part II (diversity)
By their very definition, protected areas play a significant and indispensable role for biodiversity conservation in Austria. Many threatened species are critically dependent on protected areas and on an appropriate management of their populations there. The session will deal with the assessment of biodiversity in protected areas, species assemblages and their response to management interventions, the prioritisation of species conservation measures and the relevance of biodiversity assessment studies for the development of management measures in protected areas. Of particular interest would be methods of species assemblage evaluation, analytical approaches to the quantification of biodiversity and biodiversity impacts, and species prioritisation. Special emphasis will be given to bryophytes and amphibians, taxa with a high proportion of species dependent on protected areas and specifically tailored protective measures.