areas cover roughly 15-25 % of the European countryside and suffer from land abandonment and intensification. Current policy … measures appear insufficient to prevent further biodiversity decline.. …

This review of biodiversity-related indicators was undertaken to support the development of a core set of environmental … developed to assess aspects of biodiversity at the national, international or global scale, but only a limited number of them …

As the first indicator-based assessment of progress towards the European target of halting biodiversity loss by 2010 …, this report serves two purposes. First, it takes stock of the state of biodiversity and its loss in Europe based on the …

The present report considers the status and trends of pan-European biodiversity in a range of ecosystems, and the … implications of these trends for biodiversity management policy and practice. It considers the key biodiversity policy instruments … currently applied in Europe, the threats to biodiversity and the management implications of such threats across major habitat …

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 …

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 … also shows how individual wetland socio-ecological systems (SES) can be defined and mapped using the remotely sensed land …

Europe's coastal and marine ecosystems. The EU objective of halting biodiversity loss by 2010 has not been met in either the … coastal or the marine environment. Recognising the need for an integrated ecosystem-based approach to reduce pressures, the EU … policy efforts include the EU Water Framework Directive and other freshwater legislation, and the Habitats and Birds …

Invasive alien species (IAS) have become a major driver of biodiversity loss, second only to habitat fragmentation in …