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Freshwater ecosystems in Europe are rich in biodiversity but at risk. They provide essential ecosystem services to humans, such as cleaning water, preventing floods, producing food, providing energy and regulating freshwater resources...
From the depths of oceans to the highest summits, from icy waters to baking deserts, life flourishes in every corner of our planet. On 22 May, World Biodiversity Day, the European Environment Agency shows how by mimicking nature we can redesign our cities to enhance green space and biodiversity.
The Living Façade is one of EEA's main contributions to the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity. The front of our building on Kongens Nytorv 6 is covered with about 5,000 annual plants showing a map of Europe and plant biodiversity. The façade will stay in place from 22 May to October 2010. Follow the project step by step, and learn more about the science behind it.
Link to the the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD) website with further background documents and guidelines
The Reference Portal for NATURA 2000 is part of the Standard Data Form (SDF). The portal provides those elements of the SDF which are subject to change over time and subject to changes due to technical developments. These elements are reference documents (e.g. the coding of species), technical support material (e.g. data-model, applications) as well as guidelines to ensure a consistent use of the SDF by all Member States and to outline the technical and administrative procedures on how to submit data to the Commission.
This document has been written in order to provide technical support to readers of EEA Technical report No. 12/2010: EU 2010 Biodiversity Baseline. This is given in the form of detailed elaborations and explanations of specialised words, terms and expressions.
This paper first provides some background on the data centre concept developed by the EEA. It then summarises the main systems and data flows relating to biodiversity data that are already in place across Europe (or under development). Any issues around different themes such as data flow or specific entities such as species, habitats and sites are explored. These issues are then summarised into a set of broader issues which are used to frame the potential areas that the BDC could potentially tackle as initial priorities.
This document summarises in tabular form the information from the EEA Technical report No 12/2010 - EU 2010 biodiversity baseline. It provides rapid access to key figures on biodiversity and ecosystems that were presented in graphical form in the EU baseline report.
Link to Habitats Directive incl Interpretation manual and Standard Data Form (SDF)
Documents, specifications and lists about the data sets of the Biodiversity Data Centre (BDC)
The Biodiversity data centre (BDC) provides access to data and information on species, habitat types and sites of interest in Europe and to related products for biodiversity indicators and assessments. Priority is given to policy-relevant data and information for European and national institutions, professionals, researchers and the public.
Here you will find a wide range of Environmental Data from Europe as map services. This website will help to view these maps and create Internet applications using ArcGIS Server Technology APIs.
This report focuses on ways we can use land and ecosystem accounting techniques to describe and monitor the consequences of biodiversity loss in the coastal wetlands of the Mediterranean. These ecosystems are characterised by the close coupling of economic, social and ecological processes, and any accounting system has to represent how these key elements are linked and change over time. This report discusses the importance of estimating the ecological and social costs of maintaining these systems, and the problems surrounding providing monetary estimates of the services associated with wetlands. It also shows how individual wetland socio-ecological systems (SES) can be defined and mapped using the remotely sensed land cover information from Corine Land Cover.
Forests offer much more than Sunday walks, clean air and water, wild birds and mushrooms. In addition to being home to numerous species, forests are vital to the overall health of our environment. The European Environment Agency's (EEA) new short assessment provides an overview of their state and their main threats.
For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/biodiversity/dm or scan the QR code.
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