1. 9th Meeting Coordination Group for Biodiversity and Nature
The EU biodiversity baseline
18 November 2010
Carlos Romão

2. EU biodiversity baseline ...outputs release during Green Week
2 page summary of key findings – flyer
Summary of facts and figures – brochure

3. EU biodiversity baseline ...outputs release during COP10 Nagoya
Translations of flyer into DA, ES, FI, FR
EEA Technical report No 12/2010
ca 140 pages +
annexes ca 60 pages

4. EU biodiversity baseline content (i)
1 Introduction
European and global biodiversity
Biodiversity of the EU's outermost regions (ORs) and overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
Main trends regarding ecosystems, species, and genes in the EU
LIFE Nature and Biodiversity: areas and funds
References
Habitats, species and sites of the Nature Directives
Conservation Status of habitats of Community interest
Conservation Status of species of Community interest
Endemic species in Annex II to the Habitats Directive
Crops and wild relatives in the Annexes to the Habitats Directive
Natura 2000 network

5. EU biodiversity baseline content (ii)
3-10 Agro, grassland, heath & scrub, forest, wetland, lake & river, coastal, marine ecosystems
Status and trends
Pressures and threats
Services
References
11 Threats to biodiversity
Habitat change
Pollution
Over-exploitation
Invasive alien species
Climate change

6. EU biodiversity baseline content (iii)
12 Ecosystem services
13 Soil biodiversity
Status and trends
Pressures and threats
Services
References
14 Data and information gaps
Status and trends of biodiversity – genes, species, habitats, ecosystems
Effects conservation measures & management
Ecosystem services
15 Explanatory notes

9. Conservation status of
Annex I habitat types
Conservation status of
Annex II species

13. Geographical coverage
Corine Land Cover
1990 – 25 MS (FI, SE not covered)
2000 – EU27
2006 – 25 MS (GR, UK no delivery)
IUCN Red lists
25 MS – Birds (2004), Mammals (2007)
EU27 – Amphibians & Reptiles (2009), Butterflies & Dragonflies (2010)
Conservation status (Article 17)
25 MS (BG, RO not covered)

14. Data & information gaps
Diversity, distribution, abundance, quality
Genetic diversity, species, ecosystems
Data compatibility and harmonisation (comparability)
Data infrastructures and information systems
Better understand links between state and trends of biodiversity and
Pressures and threats
Effects of conservation measures/management (responses)
Ecosystem services

15. Authors
This report was written by a project team from the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity – Sophie Condé (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle - MNHN), Lawrence Jones-Walters and Amor Torre-Marin (European Centre for Nature Conservation - ECNC) – and the European Environment Agency – Carlos Romão
Contributors
Oscar Gomez Prieto, Trine Christiansen, Katarzyna Biala, Ivone Pereira Martins (EEA).
Jérome Bailly Maitre, Zelmira Sipkova, Dominique Richard, Doug Evans (MNHN), Lubos
Halada (Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences – ILE-SAS) and Dietmar Moser (Umweltbundesamt GmbH – UBA Vienna) – European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity.
Ana Nieto (IUCN Regional Office for Pan-Europe, under contract with EEA).
Ciro Gardi (DG JRC), Luca Marmo and Alia Atitar de la Fuente (DG ENV) – soil
biodiversity chapter.
Tomas Soukup (GISAT s.r.o.) – fragmentation index.
Pam Berry and Paula A. Harrison (RUBICODE project) - Environmental Change Institute,
Oxford University Centre for the Environment (OUCE)
Valuable inputs were received from the Eionet National Reference Centres (NRC) for
Biodiversity and from the European Commission services.

16. Thank you for your attention
Thank you for your attention