Cause of loss of wetlands
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Created 29 Jul 2011
Published 18 Jul 2012
Last modified 06 Nov 2017
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Topics:
Biodiversity — Ecosystems
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European data
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Temporal coverage:
- 1990 , 2000 , 2006 , 2009
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Tags:
- wetlands , biodiversity , baseline , land use changes , land cover changes , ecosystems , bise
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- EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
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Owners:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
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Figure type:
- Graph
Additional information
- Some 35 % of the change in wetland areas between 2000 and 2006 was due to conversion to agriculture and 49 % to forest creation and afforestation.
- Of the wetland area converted to other land uses between 1990 and 2000, 2 % were artificialised (e.g. urban areas), 7 % became agricultural, 12 % water bodies, and 79 % forest and semi-natural areas (EEA, 2009).
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