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Sensitivity to desertification in the northern Mediterranean

Sensitivity to desertification and drought in the Mediterranean basin.

The magnitude of semi-natural vegetation, open bare surfaces, wetland and water bodies

Unit = ha

Vegetation sensitivity

This index is one of the components of the sensitivity to desertification index

Observed changes in growing season length

PELCOM map

PELCOM (the Pan-European Land Cover Monitoring project) is a 1-km pan-European land cover.

Pressures from urbanisation and transport on semi-natural areas

Urban sprawl is increasing, but there are insufficient data available to enable an assessment of the extent to which the re-use of previously developed land is reducing pressures for development on virgin land.

Projected drought stress

Note: Higher numbers indicate lower drought stress.

Projected no. of growing days

Note: Growing season is defined here as the number of consecutive days per year with average temperatures of more than 5 degrees Celcius.

Projected spatial mismatches of the Portuguese Dappled White butterfly and its host plants

This figure shows spatial mismatches of the Portuguese Dappled White butterfly (Euchloe tagis) and its host plants under the BAMBU scenario (climate: A2) for 2050-2080. Green, suitable climate space for the host plants;orange, suitable climate space for the butterfly; red, suitable area for both butterfly and host plants; open circles, currently observed distribution. BAMBU: Business-As-Might-Be-Usual scenario.

European Centres of Endemic Plants

Exceedances of the ozone concentration threshold value for vegetation, 1995

Note: number of days the 65 &#956;g/m3, 24 hour threshold value was exceeded, observed at background stations in whole year 1995.

Average total deposition of nitrogen, 1995-1998

Notes: At 309 intensive monitoring plots

Average total deposition of sulphate, 1995-1998

Notes: At 309 intensive monitoring plots

Corine land cover 2000 geographic view

Global Landcover 2000

Global Landcover 2000 Europe geographic view

Grassland and sparsely vegetated areas

Greenness of vegetation in Europe

Note: Greenness is a measure for plant productivity derived from remote sensing data.

DMEER: Digital Map of European Ecological Regions

Ecosystem map and European regional Seas

Ecosystem type map (all classes)

Ecosystem type map V2.1 - all classes - (EUNIS Level 2) derived from CORINE Land Cover and additional spatial explicite european datasets according to defined rule set. The rule set builds on the crosswalk between EUNIS nomenclature and CORINE Land Cover nomenclature. The multiple assignements are resolved using additional data like Art. 17 reporting data on habitat types, soil data, HANTS phenological data, potential natural vegetation, elevation zones, etc.

Terrestrial habitat mapping in Europe: an overview

This is a joint MNHN-EEA report. Identification, description, classification and mapping of natural and semi-natural habitats are gaining recognition in the sphere of environmental policy implementation. Although plant science remains at the core of the approach, habitat mapping increasingly finds applications in land planning and management and is often a necessary step in preparing nature and biodiversity conservation plans.