EEA reports on biodiversity

• 10 messages for 2010 - Coastal ecosystems
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 25/08/2010]
  Key messages: 1) As an interface between land and sea, European coastlines provide vital resources for wildlife, but also for the economy and human health and well-being. 2) Multiple pressures, including habitat loss and degradation, pollution, climate change and overexploitation of fish stocks, affect coastal ecosystems. 3) Coastal habitat types and species of Community interest are at risk in Europe; two thirds of coastal habitat types and more than half of coastal species have an unfavourable conservation status. 4) Integrated and ecosystem-based approaches provide the foundation for sustainable coastal management and development, supporting socio-economic development, biodiversity and ecosystem services. Coordinated action at the global, regional and local levels will be key to sustainable management of coastal ecosystems.
• 10 messages for 2010 — Mountain ecosystems
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 28/07/2010]
  European mountain regions provide essential ecosystem services for lowlands and host a great diversity of habitats and species, many adapted to specific extreme climatic conditions. Mountain ecosystems are fragile and vulnerable, and face severe threats from land abandonment, intensifying agriculture, impacts of infrastructure development, unsustainable exploitation and climate change.
• 10 messages for 2010 - Agricultural ecosystems
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 30/06/2010]
  Within the framework of the CAP, the last 50 years have seen increasing attention to biodiversity, but without clear benefits so far. With agriculture covering about half of EU land area, Europe's biodiversity is linked inextricably to agricultural practices, creating valuable agro-ecosystems across the whole of Europe.
• Circles of discovery
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 04/06/2010]
  A story in the "Our Natural Europe" series.
• Web of knowledge, web of life, web of wonder
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 04/06/2010]
  A story in the "Our Natural Europe" series
• EU 2010 Biodiversity Baseline
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 01/06/2010]
  The EU 2010 Biodiversity Baseline provides facts and figures on the state and trends of the different biodiversity and ecosystem components. It thereby supports the EU in developing the post‑2010 sub‑targets and provides factual data for measuring and monitoring progress in the EU from 2011 to 2020.
• Scaling up ecosystem benefits - a contribution to The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 01/06/2010]
  The present report analyses options for scaling up existing estimates of ecosystem service values to larger geographical scales. It also presents a case study of wetlands at the European level and discusses the results and policy applications.
• Towards an early warning and information system for invasive alien species (IAS) threatening biodiversity in Europe
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 01/06/2010]
  Invasive alien species (IAS) have become a major driver of biodiversity loss, second only to habitat fragmentation in recent decade. Europe is particularly affected by alien species, which are invading the continent an unprecedented pace. Their impact means that many of the region's rarest endemic species are on the brink of extinction and that our well-being and economies are affected. Establishing an early warning and rapid response framework for Europe become a key target. The present publication is the EEA contribution to achieving this goal.
• 10 messages for 2010 - Urban ecosystems
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 21/05/2010]
  In Europe, where the overwhelming majority of people live in urban areas, tackling the interlinked challenges between biodiversity and its network of towns and cities is crucial to help halting biodiversity loss.
• Ecosystem accounting and the cost of biodiversity losses — the case of coastal Mediterranean wetlands
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 28/04/2010]
  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.
• 10 messages for 2010 - Forest ecosystems
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 06/04/2010]
  Short assessment of the status of the European forest ecosystems
• EEA Signals 2010 - Biodiversity, climate change and you
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 24/03/2010]
  Signals takes us on a journey, following the course of water from the glaciers of the Alps to the permafrost of the Arctic and the delta of the Ganges. We travel to familiar and far-flung places, looking at how we can rebuild our relationships with the crucial elements of everyday life— water, soil, air — and the animals and plants that make up the tapestry of life on Earth.
• 10 messages for 2010 — freshwater ecosystems
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 17/03/2010]
  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...
• 10 messages for 2010 — marine ecosystems
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 17/03/2010]
  Marine ecosystems provide key services both globally and locally, which are essential for maintaining life on our planet. However, marine biodiversity faces an unprecedented range of pressures. In recent years climate change has caused changes in species distribution and presents new challenges for marine biodiversity as oceans become more acidic.
• 10 messages for 2010 — protected areas
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 16/03/2010]
  Protected areas provide a wide range of services in a context of increasing pressures and a rapidly changing environment. Europe is the region with the greatest number of protected areas in the world but they are relatively small in size. Europe's Natura 2000, unique in the world and still young, and the Emerald network under development, are international European networks of protected areas that catalyse biodiversity conservation.
• Distribution and targeting of the CAP budget from a biodiversity perspective
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 09/03/2010]
  The EU has highlighted the importance of using the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) to prevent the abandonment of high nature value farmland and its intensification as a key action to halt biodiversity decline. The present report sets out to assess whether the current distribution of CAP funds is likely to favour the maintenance of farmland with high nature value (HNV). And it explores the extent to which CAP funds are likely to support the long-term economic and ecological sustainability of these HNV farming systems.
• Biodiversity – 10 messages for 2010.
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 09/03/2010]
  Each message provides a short assessment focusing on a specific ecosystem or issue related to biodiversity in Europe.
• 10 messages for 2010 - climate change and biodiversity
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 11/01/2010]
  The variety of life underpins our social and economic wellbeing and will be increasingly an indispensible resource in the battle against climate change. However, our consumption and production patterns are depriving ecosystems of their capacity to withstand climate change and deliver the services we need from them. As we understand more about the ways that climate change is impacting biodiversity, it becomes clear that we cannot tackle the two crises separately. Their interdependence requires us to address them together.
• Progress towards the European 2010 biodiversity target — indicator fact sheets
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 07/07/2009]
  
• Progress towards the European 2010 biodiversity target
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 22/05/2009]
  
• EEA Signals 2009, key environmental issues facing Europe
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 09/01/2009]
  
• European forests — ecosystem conditions and sustainable use
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 26/06/2008]
  
• EEA Briefing 2/2008 - Ecosystem services - accounting for what matters
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 29/05/2008]
  
• Estimating the environmentally compatible bioenergy potential from agriculture
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 29/01/2008]
  
• Halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010: proposal for a first set of indicators to monitor progress in Europe
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 12/10/2007]
  
• Europe's environment — The fourth assessment
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 10/10/2007]
  
• Europe's environment — The fourth assessment. Executive summary
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 10/10/2007]
  
• European forest types
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 10/11/2006]
  
• Progress towards halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 30/05/2006]
  
• The European environment - State and outlook 2005
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 29/11/2005]
  
• EU Birds Directive: protecting Europe's biodiversity for 25 years
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 05/11/2004]
  
• EEA Signals 2004
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 01/06/2004]
  
• An inventory of biodiversity indicators in Europe, 2002
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 11/05/2004]
  
• Arctic environment: European perspectives
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 15/03/2004]
  
• EEA Briefing 1/2004 - Halting the loss of biodiversity in Europe
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 09/02/2004]
  
• An indicator-based approach to assessing the environmental performance of European marine fisheries and aquaculture
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 30/03/2003]
  
• Nature conservation Annual topic update 2000
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 13/12/2002]
  
• Towards an urban atlas: Assessment of spatial data on 25 European cities and urban areas
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 28/07/2002]
  
• Europe's biodiversity - biogeographical regions and seas
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 30/05/2002]
  
• Environmental signals 2002 [Summary]
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 13/05/2002]
  
• Genetically modified organisms (GMOs): The significance of gene flow through pollen transfer
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 21/03/2002]
  
• Towards a global biological information infrastructure
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 18/02/2002]
  
• Nature Conservation - Annual topic update 1999
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 12/08/2000]
  
• Nature Conservation - Annual topic update 1998
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 21/02/2000]
  
• Nutrients in European ecosystems
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 11/01/2000]
  
• The Global Biodiversity Information Facility - Architectural and Implementation Issues
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 14/12/1999]
  
• Carbon removals by European forests - Technical report for the EEA report 'The environment in the European Union at the turn of the century'
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 18/11/1999]
  
• Spatial and Ecological Assessment of the TEN - Demonstration of Indicators and GIS Methods
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 16/11/1998]
  
• Nature Conservation - Annual topic update 1997
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 07/10/1998]
  
• Europe's Environment: The Second Assessment
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 22/06/1998]
  
• Exploring Europe's Environment - Teachers' notes
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 03/05/1998]
  
• CORINE Biotopes Sites - Database Status and Perspectives 1995
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 11/12/1997]
  
• Nature Conservation - Annual summary report 1996
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 27/10/1997]
  
• The State of the Arctic Environment
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 22/10/1997]
  
• The UN Convention on Biological Diversity - Follow-up in EEA Member Countries 1996
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 19/10/1997]
  
• Annual Summary Report 1995 - Nature Conservation - with a look to the future
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 13/05/1997]
  
• Databases on Species, Habitats and Sites - Survey and Analysis 1995-96
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 11/05/1997]
  
• Europe's Environment - The Dobris Assessment
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 20/05/1995]
  
• CORINE Biotopes
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 01/01/1995]
  
• CORINE Land Cover
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 01/01/1995]
  
• CORINE Soil erosion risk and important land resources - in the southern regions of the European Community
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 01/01/1995]
  
• CORINE Land cover - Part 2: Nomenclature
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 01/01/1995]
  
• CORINE Land cover - Part 1: Methodology
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 01/01/1995]
  
• CORINE Biotopes - The design, compilation and use of an inventory of sites of major importance for nature conservation in the European Community
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 01/01/1995]
  
• CORINE Reports
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 01/01/1995]
  
• Landscapes - Europe's Environment: The Dobris Assessment (Chapter 08)
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 01/01/1995]
  
• Loss of Biodiversity - Europe's Environment: The Dobris Assessment (Chapter 29)
  [ανακοινώθηκε στις: 01/01/1995]