Ecosystems Signals

Page Last modified 08 Dec 2022

Topics: Biodiversity — Ecosystems

This section of the zero pollution monitoring assessment presents a series of short case studies that highlight additional sources of information on the impacts of pollution on ecosystems.

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Introduction

The EEA zero pollution monitoring assessment is mainly based on formal, official EU-wide data sets and indicators. To broaden the assessment, other sources of information are also examined. These sources include findings from research, country-level information and other information that may help highlight pollution issues that are insufficiently addressed by legislative or other monitoring. This section of the zero pollution monitoring assessment presents a series of short case studies that highlight some of these additional sources of information. We refer to these as ‘Signals’.

The Signals below align with the subsections of the ‘Zero pollution and ecosystems’ section of the assessment and deal with freshwater, marine, air and soil pollution. There are also some Signals which do not fit into these specific categories and they are presented as ‘biodiversity signals’.

Finally, a brief summary (Figure 1) is also presented of some of the key knowledge gaps in relation to zero pollution and ecosystems.

Navigate here on the 5 signals categories:

Freshwater

Marine

Air

Soil

Pesticides in soils

Biodiversity

Figure 1. Knowledge gaps — zero pollution and ecosystems

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For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/zero-pollution/ecosystems/signals/ecosystems-signals or scan the QR code.

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