BB20 - Area of Habitat Loss (BH4)


Field	Description	Validated Entry
[Table title]	Name of monitoring programme	Area of Habitat Loss (BH4)
[ProgrammeDescription]	Description of the monitoring programme	The indicator aims to estimate the extent and proportion of benthic habitat types that is lost due to human activities. Habitat loss may be caused by placement of offshore structures like foundations of wind turbines or by disposal of sediments onto the seafloor (sealed loss). Physical disturbance with a very high intensity may also alter the habitat type and therefore lead to a loss of habitat area (unsealed loss). The indicator currently consists of three separate assessments: (1) An assessment of sealed loss by offshore structures, (2) a risk assessment of unsealed loss by bottom trawling and (3) a general assessment of risk factors for aggregate extraction.
[OtherPoliciesConventions]	Monitoring for other Union legislation or international agreements that contributes to the programme.	OSP-CEMP (Also links with International committemnets under Convention of Biodological Diversity GBF 203 targets 4 and 14)
[Contracting Parties monitoring]	Which other countries are involved in practical implementation of this monitoring programme, and what is the degree of cooperation.	BE, DE, DK, FR, NL, SE, UK Coordinated data collection (delivered separately by each country)
[Contracting Parties supplying data]
[Contracting Parties with an "opt out"]
[Temporal scope]	Start (and end) date of the programme.	2024-9999
[Spatial scope]	Spatial coverage of the programme according to the jurisdictional zones of marine waters.	Territorial waters EEZ (or similar, e.g. Contiguous Zone, Fishing Zone, Ecological Protection Zone)
[MarineReportingUnit]	Area(s) where the programme takes place.	marineSubregion marineSubdivision
[Monitoring Purpose]	Purpose of the programme aimed at collecting data and information.	Environmental state and impacts Pressures in the marine environment
[MonitoringType]	Type of monitoring (in-situ, remote sensing, etc.).	Other (monitoring already in place from different sources)
[Indicator Metric]	Feature(s) monitored (ecosystem components, pressures, activities).	HabBenAll
[Elements]	Element(s) monitored (e.g. species, habitats, contaminants).	Circalittoral coarse sediment Circalittoral mixed sediment Circalittoral mud Circalittoral rock and biogenic reef Circalittoral sand Infralittoral coarse sediment Infralittoral mixed sediment Infralittoral mud Infralittoral rock and biogenic reef Infralittoral sand Offshore circalittoral coarse sediment Offshore circalittoral mixed sediment Offshore circalittoral mud Offshore circalittoral rock and biogenic Offshore circalittoral sand Upper bathyal rock and biogenic reef Upper bathyal sediment Deep-sea sponge aggregations Intertidal Mytilus edulis beds on mixed and sandy sediments Littoral chalk communities Lophelia pertusa reefs Maerl beds Modiolus modiolus horse mussel beds Ostrea edulis beds Sabellaria spinulosa reefs Sea-pen and burrowing megafauna communities Zostera beds
[Parameter Measured]	Parameter(s) monitored.	EXT
[Monitoring Guidelines/Monitoring Method in place]	Guidelines/protocols describing the method for monitoring.	OTH
[MonitoringMethodOther]	Guidelines/protocols describing the method for monitoring.	The CEMP guideline is not published yet. The indicator method is a modelling approach. The assessment is based on pressure data on human activities that is reported regularly to OSPAR (e.g., inventory of offshore installations, offshore renewable energy developments), from specific OSPAR data calls (e.g., on aggregate extraction) and from OSPAR requests to ICES (spatial data layers of fishing intensity). The pressure assessment is complemented by data from EMODnet on human activities. Habitat data is derived from EMODnet EUSeaMap and the distribution of OSPAR threatened and/or declining habitats.
[Quality Assurance Procedures in Place]	In addition to a specified method, is there any additional Quality Assurance used?
[Quality Control]	What type of Quality Control is used?	QC procedures for the production of modelled maps QC procedures by ICES on the compilation of VMS/logbook data
[Data submission Frequency (and deadline)]	Frequency of the monitoring	Yearly
[Applicable MSFD GES Criteria]	Indicator(s) to which the programme contributes.	D6C1 D6C4
[Data Depository]	Link to where monitoring data can be accessed (Art. 19(3)	https://odims.ospar.org/ https://www.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/report/OSPAR_request_on_the_production_of_spatial_data_layers_of_fishing_intensity_pressure/18639182
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[Assessment Guidelines]
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