Datasets and map on soil moisture, including Surface Soil Moisture, which provides information on the relative water content of the top few centimetres soil, and the Soil Water Index, which quantifies the moisture condition at various depths in the soil.
Maps about soil erosion, pollution nutrients and soil organic carbon, including a peatland degradation risk as soil degradation indicator.
Provides maps and data on soil organic carbon content, nitrogen, pH, etc., as well as different soil types and properties at different depths.
European Soil Database contains raster (grid) data files with cell sizes of both 1km x 1km and 10km x 10km for a large number of soil related parameters under request. It is provided by the EU Joint Research Centre and the European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC).
High Resolution Layer Water and Wetness provides detailed information about the presence and condition of water and wet surfaces across Europe. This product leverages both Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images to enable effective mapping of land cover characteristics such as permanent water bodies, transitional water bodies, and soil wetness.
Hydrological data from European rivers and streams under request.
Soil and hydrological data under request, including soil hydraulic properties like water retention.
Geological and hydrological data, especially groundwater properties.
A dataset that includes: -Lake Surface Water Temperature, providing real-time and historical data. -Lake Water Quality in various resolutions. -Water Bodies datasets for surface extent. -Lake and River Water Level information. -the River and Lake Ice Extent product for ice presence. Aggregated River and Lake Ice Extent product, showing percent ice coverage.
A dataset, which includes a photo-interpreted river network consistent with surface interpretation of water bodies (lakes and wide rivers) as well as a drainage model (also called Drainage Network) derived from EU-DEM.
This map shows the quality element status or potential for the European surface water bodies. The Quality Element status layer contains the ecological status or potential based on the quality element status value (i.e., the lowest of the known quality element status values per waterbody). It also includes nutrient, nitrogen, phosphorus conditions.
This map includes the River Basin Districts (RBDs) and their sub-units, the surface water bodies (water body category, ecological status or potential and chemical status), the groundwater bodies (aquifer type, quantitative status and chemical status) and the monitoring sites.
Managed by the Greifswald Mire Centre, offers data on peatland size and location worldwide. The Global Peatland Database (GPD) is a project of the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG) located and maintained at the Greifswald Mire Centre.
Location and extent of peatlands worldwide by the Global Peatlands Initiative.
Data on wetlands of international importance, including peatlands, across Europe. Includes ecological character, threats, and management information.
Map of the Natura 2000 network (the sites' borders and the sites' Standard Data Forms) for the year 2022, as provided by the EU Member States. For Denmark, the viewer shows the data from the year 2017, for Germany the data is from the year 2019.
Information on the status and location of Annex I Directive habitats. This content provides a hierarchical classification of habitats based on the Annex I of the EU Habitats Directive, which identifies and protects natural habitat types of community interest. The classification groups habitats into broader categories for organization while allowing users to explore specific sublevel habitat types.
The Ramsar List was established in response to Article 2.1 of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971), which reads: “Each Contracting Party shall designate suitable wetlands within its territory for inclusion in a List of Wetlands of International Importance, hereinafter referred to as ‘the List’ which is maintained by the bureau [secretariat of the Convention] established under Article 8.” Wetlands included in the List acquire a new status at the national level and are recognized by the international community as being of significant value not only for the country, or the countries
Alcanzar un grado de conocimiento adecuado de la ubicación y delimitación de un espacio y de su estado de conservación es la única manera de detectar posibles cambios en el mismo. Los inventarios nacionales de humedales facilitan la información esencial requerida en la que fundamentar la formulación de políticas de conservación, gestión y restauración, y por lo tanto deben ser una prioridad. En este contexto, la legislación española prevé, en dos de sus leyes básicas (Ley del Patrimonio Natural y la Biodiversidad y Ley de Aguas), la elaboración de un inventario nacional de zonas húmedas.
Thi article highlights the practice and research needs in soil and water bioengineering for reconciling natural hazard control and ecological restoration. Firstly, authors review the definition and development of bioengineering technology, while stressing issues concerning the design, implementation, and monitoring of bioengineering actions. Secondly, they highlight the need to reconcile natural hazard control and ecological restoration by posing novel practice and research questions.
This review article critically examines how contemporary practitioners approach river restoration and challenges for implementing restoration, which include clearly identified objectives, holistic understanding of rivers as ecosystems, and the role of restoration as a social process.
This article aims to introduce new arguments for bioengineering along riverbanks by applying the ecosystem service approach. We focus on major regulating services usually provided by floodplains. Denitrification and phosphorous retention were estimated by applying proxy-based models. Carbon sequestration within vegetation was calculated using biomass equations. The study clearly indicates an increase of ecosystem services by bioengineering measures compared to conventionally fixed riverbanks.
This illustrated Construction Type Manual in 5 European languages compiles 170 construction methods describing techniques which use plants as building materials. This includes preparations necessary before they can be planted and become effective. This is followed by work which allows the plants alone to take over technical, ecological and aesthetic functions. Chapter 7, which is the largest one, contains methods of stabili-zing structures by combining living with non-living materials.
Das Buch „Pflanzen statt Beton“ zeigt auf der Grundlage der Ingenieurbiologie und der Vegetationstechnik die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten der Pflanzenverwendung in den Bereichen „sichern und gestalten.“ Die wesentliche Änderung in der 2. völlig überarbeiteten und erweiterten Auflage ist die Trennung der Sicherungs- und Gestaltungsarbeiten mit Pflanzen in einen Teil A und einen Teil B, die nach vier allgemeinen und anwendungsübergreifenden Kapiteln neu geordnet wurden. Hervorgehoben werden Themen wie z. B. Wirksamkeit von Dachbegrünung, von neuen Arten der Fassaden- und Innenraumbegrünung.
Global Change Biology is an environmental change journal dedicated to shaping the future and solving the world's most challenging problems by tackling sustainability, climate change and environmental protection, food and water safety and provision, as well as global health. The journal exists to promote the understanding of the impacts of global change on biological systems and solutions.
Ecological Engineering - The Journal of Ecosystem Restoration is a specialized publication bridging the fields of ecology and engineering, focusing on the design, monitoring, and restoration of ecosystems for the benefit of both humans and nature. Covering topcs such as habitat reconstruction, ecotechnology, bioengineering, and stream restoration, the journal emphasizes innovative research in ecosystem rehabilitation.
Wetlands is an international journal presenting pioneering work across all aspects of wetlands research. Official journal of the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS), a leading authority in wetland science, education and management. Publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed articles from leading authors in the field. Explores all aspects of wetlands biology, ecology, hydrology, water chemistry, and soil and sediment characteristics. Extends coverage to management, education, legislative, sociological, and regulatory topics. Publishes a wide range of Topical Collections.
The Global Wetlands Map covers the tropics and subtropics regions (40° N to 60° S; 180° E to -180° W), excluding small islands. This mapping is a hydro-geomorphological model based on an Expert System approach to estimate wetland areas, which relies on three biophysical indices related to wetland and peat formation: (1) long-term water supply exceeding atmospheric water demand; (2) annually or seasonally waterlogged soils; and (3) a geomorphological position where water is supplied and retained.
The European Wetland Map (EWM) improves the current state of knowledge on wetlands across Europe by locating, assessing and merging the latest geospatial data, e.g., on the distribution and types of floodplains and wetlands – coastal, mineral and peatlands in a bottom-up approach. It brings together existing data into a comprehensive, easily accessible resource to make wide spread European wetlands visible and enhance their analysis, understanding and management. The approach is described in the attached report. The EWM is made up of individual datasets for each of the countries included.