Mapping Europe’s ecosystems key to ensuring their future health and resilience

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	Mapping Europe’s ecosystems key to ensuring their future health and resilience
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	2019-02-27
发布年	2019
语种	英语
国家	欧洲
领域	资源环境
正文(英文)	Mapping Europe’s vast land and marine ecosystems is crucial to assessing the health of the continent’s biodiversity and ensuring its future survival. That is why the European Environment Agency (EEA) is currently working on enhancing the data and knowledge of Europe’s ecosystems which will support the European Union’s work on the final evaluation of the EU biodiversity strategy in 2020. Image © Davide Marchi, NATURE@work /EEA The EEA briefing ‘Mapping Europe’s ecosystems’ explains recent progress made in mapping ecosystem types and their associated habitats, including the use of the EU’s Copernicus satellite system. The collection and assessment of new data are being used to significantly upgrade the existing Europe-wide ecosystem map which covers all 39 EEA member countries and cooperating countries. The map comprises 47 land, freshwater and marine habitats and five seabed types in an area of about 12 million kilometres square of land and sea. The upgrade makes full use of the improved Copernicus land monitoring service, EUSeaMap, EUNIS and other recent data. The EEA map serves as an important tool for environment experts and policymakers who need to assess the health of Europe’s ecosystems. Assessing the state of Europe’s biodiversity requires mapping the ecology of habitats to describe the interaction between species and their environment more accurately. This involves bringing together information about the distribution, size and environmental conditions like climate, topography and soil characteristics of these habitats. It is also useful in assessing the challenges and pressure they face like habitat changes, land use intensity and change, pollution, climate change and invasive species. Related content Sort by: Related data Ecosystem types of Europe The dataset combines the Copernicus land service portfolio and marine bathymetry and seabed information with the non-spatial EUNIS habitat classification for a better biological characterization of ecosystems across Europe. As such it represents probabilities of EUNIS habitat presence for each MAES ecosystem type. Ecosystem types of Europe The dataset combines the Corine based MAES ecosystem classes with the non-spatial EUNIS habitat classification for a better biological characterization of ecosystems across Europe. As such it represents probabilities of EUNIS habitat presence for each MAES ecosystem type. Permalinks Permalink to this version 3a8ad3d46e7e4766a0f890fcb1074d36 Permalink to latest version 092CJYOIP7 Geographic coverage Albania , Austria , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Cyprus , Czechia , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Italy , Kosovo , Latvia , Liechtenstein , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Macedonia , Malta , Montenegro , Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Serbia , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkey , United Kingdom Temporal coverage Dynamic
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来源平台	The European Environment Agency
文献类型	新闻
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/217795
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	admin. Mapping Europe’s ecosystems key to ensuring their future health and resilience. 2019.