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Session 4: Biodiversity related data sets at the European level

Examples of using datasets from other thematic areas• Climate change• Agricultural landscapes• Forests and shrub-land• Inland waters, coasts and seas• Valuation of biodiversity

Assessing climate change impacts on biodiversity

New indicators for new questions

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Changing plant phenology

Menzel et al., 2006 (COST 725 study, http://www.cost725.org)

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Changing species distributions

Source: Hickling et al., 2006

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Animal population impacts: polar bear habitat

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PROJECTION: HadCM3 model; emissions scenario B2

EEA Expert Workshop ‘Natura 2000 and climate change’: all papers available at http://biodiversity-chm.eea.europa.eu/information/document/fol390108

Assessment of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes

Mapping Europe’s High Nature Value farmland

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HNV mapping – Estonia

ESCCA database of semi-natural communitiesExample: Muhu island

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HNV mapping – Lithuania

Natural Grasslands InventoryExample: Adutiskis area

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HNV mapping – Czech Republic

National biotopes map N2000

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HNV mapping – England

UK BAP priority habitats

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HNV mapping – Sweden

National survey of semi-natural meadows and pastures

Forest

Biodiversity related data sets at the European level: Forest and shrub-lands

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Forest related data relevant for European-level biodiversity assessments

Land cover dataReporting to UNECE/FAO + MCPFEForest monitoring Forest focus/ICP Forests/Life+Socio-economic data/EurostatResearch cooperation/COST ActionsEC Biodiversity reporting incl. NGO monitoring

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Forest monitoring:

Forest reporting:

Forest assessment:

Forest policy:

National level European/Global level

National Forest Inventories

Forest Focus ICP Forests

UNECE/FAO Forest Resource Assessments

National Correspondents

Ministerial Conference for the Protection of Forests in Europe

State of Europe’s Forest

Data submission DG ENV, JRC, AGRI

PCC HamburgUNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution

NFPs

EU Standing Forestry Committee

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ICP Forests/Forest Focus Level 1 plots classified by Forest Types (Categories)(BioSoil)

FutDiv/Life+ :• Tree species • Structure• Dead wood• Ground vegetation

BirdLife Forest Task Force

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Dead wood (non-decomposed)

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ENFIN/COST E43

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EEA report 'European Forest Biodiversity - Ecosystem condition and sustainable use‘

To be launched at the upcoming CBD COP-9 in Bonn, May 2008Eionet consultation January 2008European forest: Where are we now, how did we get there and what are we doing?A ’Forest Type’ approachMCPFE 2007 data

Assessing biodiversity in inland waters, coasts and the seas

What data do we use to generate our assessments?

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The EEA water Core set indicators

Are under thorough revision by the Water and Agriculture group.

Further work is concentrating on EU Water Framework Directive biological data

Up to now there was a limited use in assessments on ‘marine’ biodiversity and has not always been, strictly speaking, biodiversity.

Some biodiversity-related aspect of fisheries. A one-shot listing and producing some evidence on wide ecological impacts of fisheries for the Belgrade, which included some biodiversity-relevant information.

The EEA water Core set indicators

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Status of marine fish stocks (CSI 032)

http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/atlas/viewdata/viewpub.asp?id=2117To be updated!!!! Many commercial fish stocks in European waters remain non-assessed. Of the assessed commercial stocks in the NE Atlantic, 21 to 53 % are outside safe biological limits (SBL). Of the assessed stocks in the Baltic Sea, the West Ireland Sea and the Irish Sea, 22, 29 and 53 %, respectively, are outside SBL. In the Mediterranean, the percentage of stocks outside SBL range from 10 to 20 %.

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Nutrients in transitional, coastal and marine waters (CSI 021)

No general and clear change is observed in the eutrophication state of Europe's coastal waters. The phosphate concentration has decreased in some areas, but the nitrate concentration has generally remained stable over recent years. http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/map.asp?id=16852

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Net change in coastal land cover 1990-2000

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Arable land & permanent crops

Pastures & mosaics

Forested land

Semi-natural vegetation

Open spaces/ bare soils

Wetlands

Water bodies

Land accounts: coastal zone

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National coastal zones covered by Natura2000 sites (2005)

Valuation of biodiversity

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Ecosystems: functions and services

Source: Jean-Louis Weber

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Non-market ecosystems services

Valuation methods:• Cost-based approach

• Production function

• Revealed preference techniques• Travel method• Hedonic pricing

• Stated preference techniques• Contingent valuation• Conjoint analysis

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Value analysis

Marketable goods/services • Market analysis =>

• prices x quantities = values• study area depend on homogeneity of the

market (may be large)

Non-market services =>• Behavioural/attitudinal analysis

• values (= quantities x prices)• study area depends on homogeneity of

population (commonly small)

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Valuation of non-market services

Available results for small areas (study sites) Study site => policy site? Benefit Transfer methodTransferred values depend on local conditions• Ecosystem characteristics • Characteristics of local

population and economy

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Datasets?

Data are conditional => we need data plus the analysis”Metadata” sets =>databases with research literaturePreference for well-recorded research

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Metadata sets

Source: McComb et al. (Ecological Economics, vol. 60, 2006