Ecosystems Signals
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- The significance of airborne nitrogen deposition to the Baltic Sea
- Wheat production losses due to ground-level ozone pollution in Europe
Soil
Biodiversity- Light pollution — a neglected environmental threat to biodiversity?
- Understanding pesticide impacts on pollinators
Figure 1. Knowledge gaps — zero pollution and ecosystems
Cover image source: © Panagiotis Dalagiorgos, Well with Nature /EEA
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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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