Datasets
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Biodiversity scenarios
Guiding reference: estimates of biodiversity change as projected for the 21st century and their plausibility, to provide decision makers with messages that reflect the consensus... -
Link between ecosystem services and biodiversity
Guiding reference: an example quantifying the link between biodiversity and ecosystem services (applied to the nursery function) so that policy may be effective in halting... -
Methods and approaches to modelling the Anthropocene
Guiding reference: assessing current model representations of Anthropocene dynamics, to enhance the role of modeling tools to better help understanding Anthropocene dynamics and... -
Conceptual frameworks
Guiding reference: helping operationalising conceptual frameworks to be meaningful for the different place-based studies. -
Social–ecological systems analysis
Guiding reference: helping analysis of social-ecological systems to guide longer term actions for the conservation of biodiversity. -
AQUACROSS architecture
The AQUACROSS architecture as a whole is formed by two analytical pathways linking two compex adaptive systems. -
AQUACROSS architecture - analytical models
AQUACROSS Heuristics II: analytical models and tools, how one thing leads to another. Models involved in the AQUACROSS architecture are purposely designed to explain specific... -
AQUACROSS architecture - demand side
AQUACROSS Architecture. Demand-side relationships. Understanding ecosystem degradation and restoration as processes triggered by the demand of ecosystem services arising in the... -
AQUACROSS architecture_information layers and flow
AQUACROSS heuristics: circular information flow to inform the relevant linkages around the AQUACROSS architecture, to speed up the process of analysing the complex interaction... -
AQUACROSS architecture - supply side
AQUACROSS Architecture. Supply-side relationships. It represents and elucidates the potential of ecosystems to supply and effectively deliver ecosystem services to the social... -
Assessment of Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services
Guiding reference: helping to bridge the knowledge gap for the Assessment of Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Services. -
Fishing for data and sorting the catch: assessing the data quality,...
Guiding reference: assessing the quality and completeness of the distribution records within the European and international Ocean Biogeographic Information Systems (EurOBIS and... -
Similar Resilience Attributes in Lakes with Different Management Practices
Guiding reference: community metrics in limed lakes to assess the efficiency of restoration and management outcomes contributing to resilience in ecosystems. -
Comparison of gridded sea surface temperature datasets for marine ecosystem studies
Resolving autocorrelation from environmental drivers of biotic change. -
Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components...
Guiding reference: giving criteria to define spatial scales and some guidance on aggregating and integrating information (components, indicators) to assess the environmental... -
A Methodology for Adaptable and Robust Ecosystem Services Assessment
Guiding reference: addressing the diversity of real-world management situations that exist across the broad spectrum of coupled human-natural systems. Introducing ARIES. -
Current Status and Future Prospects for the Assessment of Marine and Coastal...
Guiding reference: extracting and classifying indicators used to assess and map marine and coastal ecosystem services (MCES). -
Variability in the Carbon Storage of Seagrass Habitats and Its Implications...
Variability in seagrass carbon stock and accumulation rates, factors driving this variability, in order to improve global estimates of seagrass Blue Carbon storage. -
The EBM-DPSER Conceptual Model: Integrating Ecosystem Services into the...
Introducing ecosystem services into the DPSIR framework to help EBM implemenation. -
A strategy for the conservation of biodiversity on mid-ocean ridges from...
Assessing criteria to measure network performance and design against conservation targets, applied to seafloor mineral exploitation scenarios. -
The conceptual foundation of environmental decision support
The combination of probability theory and scenario planning with multi-attribute utility theory, with adaptations and extensions of these theories, to capture societal... -
Spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world’s ocean
Calculating and mapping recent change over 5 years in cumulative impacts to marine ecosystems globally from fishing, climate change, and ocean- and land-based stressors. -
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the ecosystem-based approach –...
Disambiguation in the use of terms, such as indicator, impact and habitat, a clear distinction between pressure and state descriptors and addition of criteria on ecosystem... -
Remotely Sensed High-Resolution Global Cloud Dynamics for Predicting...
Presenting a dataset that reveals cloud cover dynamics at unprecedented spatial resolution to improve predictions of habitats, ecosystem, and species distributions with reduced... -
Integrating ecosystem services in river basin management plans
A flexible methodological framework based on a combination of CEA and CBA that can be easily adapted to different case studies, applied to WFD objectives achievement. -
Ecosystem services provided by a complex coastal region: challenges of...
A framework for addressing ecosystem services in complex coastal regions. -
Untangling the effects of multiple human stressors and their impacts on fish...
Human stressors and their impacts on fish assemblages at pan-European scale by analysing single and multiple stressors and their interactions; providing a basis for advanced... -
An Objective Framework to Test the Quality of Candidate Indicators of Good...
A hypothesis-based protocol to evaluate whether indicators meet quality criteria explicit to the MSFD, supporting the evidence-based management of European seas. -
DPSIR—Two Decades of Trying to Develop a Unifying Framework for Marine...
A review of DPSIR framework application, with lessons learned after two decades of use, that shows challenges in approach for coastal and marine ecosystem management. -
European Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Networks: Strengths, Weaknesses,...
A review of the monitoring activity at the regional and sub-regional level for MSFD descriptors. -
An indicator framework for assessing ecosystem services in support of the EU...
An analytical framework that links human societies and their well-being with the environment, to help mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services. -
Perspectives on the link between ecosystem services and biodiversity: The...
A review on how the role of nursery habitats is included in the ecosystem services literature, covering conceptual, biophysical and economic reflections. -
Ecosystem services sustainability in the Mediterranean Sea: assessment of...
An application of biophysical and ecosystem modelling approaches to assess spatially and temporally the sustainable use and supply of selected marine ecosystem services. -
Biodiversity analysis in the digital era
Harnessing advances in ‘Big Data’ biodiversity informatics and e-research infrastructure to enable a deeper understanding of biodiversity evolution and dynamics in a rapidly... -
Biodiversity and ecosystem services require IPBES to take novel approach to scenarios
Presenting and comparing three alternative scenario strategies that IPBES could use, and suggesting a bottom-up, cross-scale scenario strategy to improve the policy relevance of... -
The Transition of EU Water Policy Towards the Water Framework Directive’s...
A review on the transition of EU policies that led to the adoption of the WFD, to identify the reasons why the Directive was introduced and what it is trying to deliver, and to... -
Recurrent Governance Challenges in the Implementation and Alignment of Flood...
Potential processes and mechanisms for coordinating the activities and capacities of actors that are involved on different levels and in different sectors of flood risk... -
Should the ecosystem services concept be used in European Commission impact...
Discussing the potential value of integrating the ecosystem services (ESS) concept for improving the consideration of environmental benefits and values during framing and... -
Overview of Integrative Assessment of Marine Systems: The Ecosystem Approach...
A review of existing methods that address integrative assessment and innovative monitoring needs to evaluate the health status of marine ecosystems. -
Quantitative criteria for choosing targets and indicators for sustainable...
A specific, quantitative interpretation of the concepts of GES and sustainable use in terms of indicators and associated targets (MSFD), by sharply distinguishing between... -
Benefit relevant indicators: Ecosystem services measures that link...
A new type of indicator that explicitly reflects an ecosystem’s capacity to provide benefits to society, ensuring that ecosystem service assessments measure outcomes that are... -
Progress with monitoring and assessment in the WFD implementation in five...
Implementation challenges faced by five European RBDs during the development and implementation of the 1st River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) of 2009 (WFD implementation). -
Opportunities and Barriers for Water Co-Governance—A Critical Analysis of...
An analytical framework for assessing opportunities and barriers of co-governance, defined as collaborative societal involvement in the functions of government, and its... -
A stakeholder-based assessment of barriers to climate change adaptation in a...
A stakeholder-based assessment of barriers to the adoption of climate adaptation options for irrigation in the Guadiana basin, one of Spain’s most climate-vulnerable basins. -
The Deposition and Accumulation of Microplastics in Marine Sediments and...
The first record of plastic contamination, in the 5 mm–250 μm size range, of Irish continental shelf sediments. -
Improving agricultural pollution abatement through result-based payment schemes
A result-based payment scheme for nonpoint-source pollution abatement from arable land (case study in southern Sweden). -
Matching Ecosystem Functions with Adaptive Ecosystem Management: Decision...
A case study approach assessing management interventions to illustrate how collective strategic decisions can be made to manage a valued ecosystem situated within an urban matrix. -
An operational framework for integrated Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems...
An operational framework that builds on existing work done by the European Commission’s MAES Working Group and provides a clear nine-step approach including the identification... -
The impact of flooding on aquatic ecosystem services
Identifying the effects that small magnitude frequently occurring floods and extreme floods have on ten aquatic ecosystem services through a systematic literature review. -
Interregional flows of ecosystem services: Concepts, typology and four cases
A synthesis of existing knowledge and a conceptual framework for analysing interregional ecosystem service flows, the characteristics of sending and receiving socio-ecological...