660a7b8e-27c0-4b94-b495-e2d6d98ddd42 European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu pointOfContact 2025-10-09T10:54:41.741917Z ISO 19115/19139 1.0 EPSG:3035 Assessment of ecosystem health status using MESH+, Apr. 2020 2019-05-08 creation 2020-05-14 publication 01.00 eea_v_3035_20_km_mesh-ecosystem-health_p_2006-2016_v01_r00 DAT-233-en This dataset presents the resulting assessment grid (based on the EEA reference grid) with the classification of ecosystem health of the transitional, coastal and marine waters in the context of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). This classification has been performed using the MESH+ (Marine EcoSystem Health) tool. The MESH+ tool builds on the EEA assessment tools developed and applied in the context of assessing the degree of contamination (CHASE+), eutrophication (HEAT+) and biodiversity (BEAT+) in Europe's seas (EEA, 2018a, 2019c; Vaughan et al., 2019). MESH+ makes use of the same data sets and threshold values used in these assessments but recombines these in a new framework that addresses 'ecosystem condition'. The overall area of interest used is based on the marine regions and subregions under the MSFD. Additionally, Norwegian (Barents Sea and Norwegian Sea) and Icelandic waters (’Iceland Sea’) have been added (see Surrounding seas of Europe). Note that within the North East Atlantic region only the subregions within EEZ boundaries (~200 nm) have been included. The spatial resolution of the assessment grid is 20 km x 20 km in coastal areas and 100 km x 100 km in offshore areas. This dataset underpins the findings and cartographic representations published in the report "Marine Messages II" (EEA, 2020): https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/marine-messages-2 European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu http://www.eea.europa.eu WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link European Environment Agency public website pointOfContact European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu custodian https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/public/catalogue-graphic-overview/660a7b8e-27c0-4b94-b495-e2d6d98ddd42.png Oceanographic geographical features Sea regions GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeutheme-theme coastal water transitional waters sea water ocean marine ecosystem ecosystem assessment Water Framework Directive sea GEMET 2021-11-30 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet Norwegian Sea North Sea Barents Sea English Channel Baltic Sea Bay of Biscay Adriatic Sea Black Sea Iceland Sea Aegean Sea Kattegat Mediterranean Sea Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. 2015-07-17T12:00:00 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions European Spatial scope 2019-05-22 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeumetadatacodelistSpatialScope-SpatialScope 2020 1.6.2 EEA Management Plan 2021-08-25 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.eea-mp Chemicals Seas and coasts Water Biodiversity Pollution EEA topics 2020-09-24 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.eea-topics /Métropole /Métropole/Manche mer du Nord /Métropole/Mers Celtiques /Métropole/Golfe de Gascogne /Métropole/Méditerranée occidentale Sous-regions marines geonetwork.thesaurus.local.place.dcsmm.area /Etat du Milieu/Habitats Thématiques - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.thematiques /Etat du Milieu/Pollutions Thématiques - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.thematiques /Données dérivées/Indicateurs Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.type_jeux_donnee /Données dérivées/Produits composites Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.type_jeux_donnee Directive Cadre Stratégie pour le Milieu Marin (DCSMM) Cadre Réglementaire - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.reglementaire Directive Cadre sur l'Eau (DCE) Cadre Réglementaire - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.reglementaire no limitations to public access License CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA). 3feffd63-ab0b-4f03-84e8-b2c324c93bbe 7c66cfd5-4246-4b9d-86af-624950aa49d4 70064384-f3b7-49ad-b137-bdf31af82158 vector 100 20 environment oceans -28.6036 42.01 34.5377 78.3225 2006-01-01 2016-12-31 SHP 1 https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_20_km_mesh-ecosystem-health_p_2006-2016_v01_r00/ EEA:FOLDERPATH https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/660a7b8e-27c0-4b94-b495-e2d6d98ddd42 WWW:URL Direct download https://marine.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Marine/MESH_ecosystem_health/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS OGC:WMS https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/provisional-identification-and-mapping-of WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link EEA website - graphic Provisional identification and mapping of ‘problem areas’ (PA) and ‘non-problem areas’ (NPA) with respect to the ‘ecosystem condition’ of Europe’s seas https://marine.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Marine/MESH_ecosystem_health/MapServer ESRI:REST Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See the referenced specification Results of classification of 'Marine Ecosystem Health' using the MESH+ tool. The Ecosystem Health status is evaluated in five classes: - "NPAhigh" and "NPAgood" are recognised as ‘non-problem areas’ - "PAmoderate", "PApoor" and "PAbad" are recognised as ‘problem areas’. The MESH+ tool builds on the EEA assessment tools developed and applied in the context of assessing the degree of contamination (CHASE+), eutrophication (HEAT+) and biodiversity (BEAT+) in Europe's seas (EEA, 2018a, 2019c; Vaughan et al., 2019). MESH+ makes use of the same data sets and threshold values used in these assessments but recombines these in a new framework that addresses 'ecosystem condition'. This dataset underpins the findings and cartographic representations published in the report "Marine Messages" (EEA, 2020), available on https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/marine-messages-2/.