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Assessing biodiversity in Europe — the 2010 report

Publication Created 01 Oct 2010 Published 01 Oct 2010
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The present report considers the status and trends of pan-European biodiversity, and the implications of these trends for biodiversity management policy and practice. It considers the key biodiversity policy instruments currently applied in Europe, the threats to biodiversity and their management implications across major habitat types. The implications for biodiversity of cross-cutting issues such as tourism and urban planning are also considered, along with the challenges that remain for conserving and sustainably using of Europe's biodiversity. The report makes use of the SEBI 2010 indicators and other relevant national and regional information sources. It does not consider the biodiversity of EU overseas territories and outermost regions.
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EEA Report No 5/2010
The present report considers the status and trends of pan-European biodiversity, and the implications of these trends for biodiversity management policy and practice. It considers the key biodiversity policy instruments currently applied in Europe, the threats to biodiversity and their management implications across major habitat types. The implications for biodiversity of cross-cutting issues such as tourism and urban planning are also considered, along with the challenges that remain for conserving and sustainably using of Europe's biodiversity. The report makes use of the SEBI 2010 indicators and other relevant national and regional information sources. It does not consider the biodiversity of EU overseas territories and outermost regions.

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: 978-92-9213-106-7
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Land cover change between 1990 and 2006 — area change for major habitat classes How to read the graph: from 1990 to 2006, artificial areas (housing and industrial areas and infrastructure) increased by nearly 8 %, whereas wetlands decreased by nearly 3 %.
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Grassland butterflies — population index (1990 = 100) How to read the graph: since 1990, grassland butterflies have declined by almost 70 %.
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Common birds in Europe — population index (1980 = 100) How to read the graph: since 1980 the number of common farmland birds has declined by around 50 %
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Growth of the nationally designated protected areas and site number in 39 EEA countries How to read the graph: In 1995 there was more than 40 000 of nationally designated sites within the 39 countries. More than 600 000 km2 were under national designations.
Origin of urban land uptake as a percentage of total uptake, derived from land cover accounts: 24 countries in Europe, 1990–2000 (left); and 36 countries in 2000–2006 (right) -
Conservation status of species of European Union interest in agro-ecosystems in EU-25 Conservation status of species per biogeographic area in agro-ecosystems.
Conservation status of habitat types of European Union interest in agro-ecosystems in EU-25 Overall statistics on the right, statistics by region on the left
Index of terrestrial species disaggregated by Arctic boundary for the period 1970–2004 -
Location of datasets in the Arctic Species Trend Index -
Conservation status of marine habitat types and species of Community interest in EU-25 -
Conservation status of species of European Union interest in forest ecosystems in EU-25 Conservation status of species per biogeographical area in forest ecosystems. Statistics by region on the left, overall statistics on the right.
Major mountain ranges of Europe -
Concentrations of nitrate and orthophosphate in rivers and total phosphorus in lakes in the period 1992–2007 Total number of stations in parenthesis. Concentrations are expressed as weighted means of annual mean concentrations for rivers and lakes. Only stations with time series of seven years or more are included.
Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD5) and total ammonium concentrations in rivers between 1992 and 2007 Numbers of river monitoring stations in brackets
Conservation status of assessed habitats in EU-25, by biogeographical region How to read the map: in the Mediterranean biogeographical region (see Box 2.2 for an explanation of biogeograhical regions) about 21 % of habitats have a favourable conservation status but 37 % have an unfavourable (bad/inadequate) status.
Conservation status of all birds in EU-25 -
Conservation status of assessed species in EU-25, by taxonomic group -
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The pan-European region covered in this report Some of the indicators show data for country groupings
Percentage of assessed freshwater animal species in each conservation class in the EU-25 per biogeographic region The number of assessed species present in each region is given in brackets.
Conservation status of forest-related habitat types of European Union interest listed in the EU Habitats Directive in the EU-25 (number of assessments in brackets) Conservation status of habitats per biogeographic area in forest ecosystems. Statistics by region on the left, overall statistics on the right.
Regional indicators of common forest birds in four European regions
Nitrogen balance per hectare of agricultural land in OECD countries
Distribution of freshwater fish in the pan-European region
Marine Trophic Index percentage change between 1950 and 2004 How to read the graph: The MTI for the Black Sea was about 13 % lower in 2004 than it was in 1950.
Share of total utilised agricultural area (UAA) occupied by organic farming Area covers existing organically-farmed areas and areas in process of conversion
Deadwood in Pan-European forests, 1990-2005 In the period 1990-2005, an overall increase in dead wood by about 4.3 % was observed in the pan-European region (EEA, 2009), a sign of more biodiversity-friendly management.

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