Physical loss to seabed in Europe Seas, Jan. 2020

This raster dataset represents the physical loss of the seabed in the European seas. Physical habitat loss is an extreme pressure on the marine ecosystem which was defined to include all impacts on the seabed which take more than 12 years to recover, a time span influencing even long living marine mammals and seabirds. Habitat is lost if its substrate, morphology or topography is permanently altered.

The dataset is an aggregation of several different human activities that cause physical loss in the seabed: dredging and dumping of dredged material, oil and gas rigs, offshore installations, ports, sand and gravel extraction and windfarms. The resulting dataset is a raster (10km grid cell) derived from EMODnet, MED-IAMER and 4C Offshore datasets and with temporal reference from 2012 to 2017. Higher values mean more loss causing activity in the area. Due to its resolution, loss causing activity in a cell does not usually mean that all the seabed habitat in the area is lost.

This dataset has been prepared for the calculation of the combined effect index, produced for the ETC/ICM Report 4/2019 "Multiple pressures and their combined effects in Europe's seas" available on: https://www.eionet.europa.eu/etcs/etc-icm/etc-icm-report-4-2019-multiple-pressures-and-their-combined-effects-in-europes-seas-1.

Citation proposal
European Environment Agency (2020) . Physical loss to seabed in Europe Seas, Jan. 2020. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/6e2e8ce0-7d81-4904-bf52-e919f784ef6e

Date ( Creation ): 2019-05-01

Date ( Publication ): 2020-01-27

Edition: 01.00

Identifier: eea_r_3035_10_km_physical-loss_p_2012-2017_v01_r00

Point of contact

European Environment Agency

Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark

Website: European Environment Agency public website

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No information provided.

Custodian

European Environment Agency

Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen 1050 Denmark

Website: European Environment Agency public website

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

Oceanographic geographical features

Keywords

GEMET ( Theme )

sea bed , gravel extraction , dredged material , fishing , pressure , harbour , loss , sea , oil extraction , sand extraction , wind power , dredging , environmental pressure

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )

North Sea , Bay of Biscay , Norwegian Sea , English Channel , Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W) , Adriatic Sea , Black Sea , Iceland Sea , Ionian Sea , Kattegat , Mediterranean Sea , Barents Sea , Baltic Sea , Celtic Sea

Spatial scope ( Theme )

European

Temporal resolution ( Temporal )

EEA topics ( Theme )

Biodiversity , Fisheries and aquaculture , Production and consumption , Industry , Seas and coasts

Sous-regions marines ( Place )

/Métropole , /Métropole/Manche mer du Nord , /Métropole/Mers Celtiques , /Métropole/Golfe de Gascogne , /Métropole/Méditerranée occidentale