European Mean Target Achievement (MTA) Indicator

The EU MTA indicator is one way of assessing the benefits of protected area expansions using information of covered species distributions. It can be interpreted as the average number of species or habitats that are adequately (indicated through a target) conserved by conservation areas (Natura 2000 and/or CDDA sites) within the European union.

This repository contains the created MTA indicator values created from an intersection of the Natura2000 and CDDA databases with the sensitive Article 12 and 17 reporting data.

Filename explanation: 

MTA_{target}_{scale}_{directive}_{biodiversity}_{version}.csv

target
Which target was used for calculations. Currently: 'loglinear'

scale
Which datasets from the reporting was used. Supported currently are EU and MS

directive
Subset either for 'All' species and habitats, or just 'Art12' or 'Art17' data

biodiversity
Subset either for 'All',  'species' or 'habitats' respectively

version
A unique version number for each upload identical with the Zotero version.

For further information and a detailed factsheet can be found on the online dashboard here:https://martin-jung.github.io/EUMTA/dashboard.html 

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* The MTA indicator calculation and the creation of this dashboard contributes to WP7 of the NaturaConnect project. The information here is provided free of charge and the project takes no responsibility for errors or misuse.