Federal Agency for Nature Conservation: Benthic habitats (WFS)

The WFS Downloaddienst provides the geometries on the benthic habitats for the North and Baltic Sea, which have been the basis for the assessment of the seabed in the context of the status assessment under Articles 8 and 10 of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) in 2018 (https://www.meeresschutz.info/berichte-art-8-10.html?file=files/meeresschutz/berichte/art8910/zyklus18/Zustandsbericht_Nordsee_2018.pdf ; https://www.meeresschutz.info/berichte-art-8-10.html?file=files/meeresschutz/berichte/art8910/zyklus18/Zustandsbericht_Ostsee_2018.pdf). The two datasets available separately for the North Sea and Baltic Sea contain the intertwined Broad Habitat Types (BHT) and Other Habitat Types (OHT). BHTs, referred to as widespread benthic habitats in the 2018 state reports, correspond to benthic biotope classes of EUNIS level 3 in accordance with COM Decision 2017/848. OHTs, referred to as specially protected benthic habitats in the 2018 state reports, correspond to other benthic habitat types in accordance with COM Decision 2017/848. As such, in 2018, Germany included and assessed, inter alia, the two FFH habitat types sandbanks (EU code 1110) and reefs (EU code 1170) in the data sets.WFS下载服务（WFS Downloaddienst）提供了北海与波罗的海的底栖生境空间几何数据，该数据是2018年依据《海洋战略框架指令（Marine Strategy Framework Directive, MSFD）》第8条与第10条开展海洋环境状态评估时，用于海底状况评估的基础数据，相关参考报告链接为：https://www.meeresschutz.info/berichte-art-8-10.html?file=files/meeresschutz/berichte/art8910/zyklus18/Zustandsbericht_Nordsee_2018.pdf 与 https://www.meeresschutz.info/berichte-art-8-10.html?file=files/meeresschutz/berichte/art8910/zyklus18/Zustandsbericht_Ostsee_2018.pdf。该数据集分为北海与波罗的海两个独立版本，包含相互交织的宽幅生境类型（Broad Habitat Types, BHT）与其他生境类型（Other Habitat Types, OHT）。宽幅生境类型（BHT）在2018年状态报告中被称为广布底栖生境，根据欧盟委员会第2017/848号决议（COM Decision 2017/848），其对应欧洲自然信息系统（European Nature Information System, EUNIS）三级底栖生境群落类别。其他生境类型（OHT）在2018年状态报告中被称为特殊保护底栖生境，同样依据欧盟委员会第2017/848号决议，其对应其他底栖生境类型。据此，德国在2018年的数据集中共纳入并评估了两类生境指令（FFH）生境类型，包括沙洲（欧盟代码1110）与礁盘（欧盟代码1170）。