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"text": ". For example, droughts tend to slow nutrient uptake by plants and reduce the absorption of foliar nutrients, with premature leaf senescence. This results in forest dieback episodes that can severely reduce carbon exchange between the "
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"text": "Drought disturbances push coupled natural-human systems (i.e. land systems) beyond their adaptive capacity and trigger important socioecological "
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"text": ". For example, a drought may result in ecological impacts that feed back to alter natural systems \u2014 namely the selection of drought-adapted traits or species, range shifts or ecoclimatic teleconnections ("
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"text": ") \u2014 with little influence on the ecosystem services provided. Alternatively, a drought may produce only minor ecological effects that do not feed back to natural systems but have larger effects on ecosystem services that alter connected human sub-systems, leading to, for instance, a reduction in crop yields. Finally, drought can induce ecological impacts and ecosystem service losses that are extreme and drive a persistent state change in both the human and natural systems, such as vegetation type conversion or mass human migrations "
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"text": "Understanding and monitoring the pressures of drought on terrestrial ecosystems allow a better understanding of potential changes to ecosystem services that are linked to human well-being and, as a result, of how to address disparate problems in land systems such as poverty and biodiversity conservation."
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"text": ". Although the primary driver of drought is a shortage of precipitation, its definition may depend on, among other factors, location, time of year, soil type, land use class and the context of the impact. For example, following "
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"text": ", meteorological (lack of precipitation), agricultural (decline in soil moisture), hydrological (low streamflow) and socioeconomic droughts are often distinguished. Agricultural drought can be thought of as the result of a shortage of precipitation over a particular timescale that leads to a soil moisture deficit that limits water availability for "
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"text": ". In addition to undermining economic benefits, the continuing loss of biodiversity means that ecosystems and the societies that rely upon them will become more fragile and less resilient in the face of challenges such as climate change, pollution and habitat destruction. Droughts have an impact on several land and soil functions, as well as ecosystem services, both in urban and rural areas. For example, droughts have an impact on the availability of water resources for human use in agriculture, cause habitat loss, the migration of local species and their replacement by alien species in open rural systems, and consequently cause soil erosion and biodiversity degradation. By putting pressure on natural ecosystems, droughts have hampered the achievement of the 2020 EU biodiversity strategy\u2019s objectives."
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"text": "Pressure from droughts on natural ecosystems also plays an important role in the implementation of the EU strategy on green infrastructure. In contrast to the most common \u2018grey\u2019 (human-made, constructed) infrastructure approaches that serve one single objective, green infrastructure approaches promote multifunctionality, which means that the same area of land is able to perform several functions and offer multiple benefits if its ecosystems are in a healthy state. More specifically, green infrastructure aims to enhance nature\u2019s ability to deliver multiple valuable ecosystem goods and services, potentially providing a wide range of environmental, social, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and biodiversity benefits. Drought diminishes the normal condition of ecosystems and their capacity to provide services that could be integrated into green infrastructures."
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"text": "Under EU legislation adopted in May 2018, EU Member States have to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions from land use, land use change and forestry are offset by an at least equivalent removal of CO\u2082 from the atmosphere in the period 2021-2030. Ultimately, the capacity of forests and soils on a given area of land to remove carbon from the atmosphere will depend on a number of natural (regional/geographical) circumstances such as variations in growing conditions (temperature, precipitation and droughts) and natural disturbances (storms, fires) as well as past and present management practices (e.g. rotation lengths, which affect the distribution of age classes in forest stands). By measuring changes in emissions and removals relative to business-as-usual projections, these circumstances (such as drought pressure) will be \u2018factored out\u2019, so that only changes related directly human-induced activities are measured. This also provides incentives for improving the current situation and gives an equal value to mitigation whether through sequestration or conservation, or material and energy substitution."
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"text": "The role of the CAP is to provide a policy framework that supports and encourages producers to address economic, environmental (i.e. relating to resource efficiency, soil and water quality, and threats to habitats and biodiversity) and territorial challenges, while remaining coherent with other EU policies. This translates into three long-term CAP objectives: viable food production, the sustainable management of natural resources and climate action, and balanced territorial development. Given the pressure from droughts on natural resources, agriculture must improve its environmental performance through more sustainable production methods. Farmers also have to adapt to challenges stemming from changes to the climate by pursuing climate change mitigation and adaption actions (e.g. by developing greater resilience to disasters such as flooding, drought and fire). Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of drought pressures on land will contribute to a better, faster and more informed implementation of CAP reforms and improve the quality of life of rural populations in Europe."
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"text": "Targets"
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"text": "There are no specific targets related to this indicator."
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"text": "Related policy documents"
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"text": "COM(2013) 249 final Green infrastructure (GI): enhancing Europe\u2019s natural capital. "
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"text": "EC, 2013, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions \u2014 Green infrastructure (GI): enhancing Europe\u2019s natural capital (COM(2013) 249 final of 6 May 2013). "
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"text": "Common agricultural policy"
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"text": ". The common agricultural policy is about our food, the environment and the countryside. "
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"text": "EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030"
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"text": ". The European Commission has adopted the new\u00a0 EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and an associated Action Plan (annex) \u00a0- a comprehensive, ambitious, long-term plan for protecting nature and reversing the degradation of ecosystems. It aims to put Europe's biodiversity on a path to recovery by 2030 with benefits for people, the climate and the planet. It aims to build our societies\u2019 resilience to future threats such as climate\u00a0change\u00a0impacts, forest fires, food insecurity or disease outbreaks, including by\u00a0protecting\u00a0wildlife and\u00a0fighting\u00a0illegal wildlife trade. A core part of the\u00a0 European Green Deal , the Biodiversity Strategy will also support a green recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. "
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"text": ". EC, 2015, Commission staff working document \u2014 EU assessment of progress in implementing the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020 (SWD(2015) 187 final). "
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"text": "Accuracy is determined by the remote-sensing vegetation signal provided by the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service and by the precipitation and soil moisture values provided by the Copernicus Emergency Service."
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"text": "The various conceptual generalisations and scientific assumptions that are intrinsic in the Distributed Water Balance and Flood Simulation Model (Lisflood) \u2014 for example regarding soil physics, land use, canopy cover and meteorological data interpolation \u2014 and also the calibration of the model, may produce in some cases large approximations of the actual soil moisture content, and a progressive divergence from the real conditions."
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