Publication Ecosystem accounts – Ecosystem extent account

At the Federal Statistical Office, work on the compilation of ecosystem accounts began in August 2020. The aim of this work is to create a nationwide, spatially and temporally consistent data basis on the extent and condition of the ecosystems and the services they provide to humans, in order to effectively support political decision-making. The extent account, in which Germany’s ecosystems are recorded, classified and mapped, constitutes the basis of the reporting system. The comparison between the extent accounts of different survey years also offers the possibility to identify changes between ecosystems.

Authors: Marius Bellingen, Simon Felgendreher, Johannes Oehrlein, Simon Schürz, Stephan Arnold

Article published in "WISTA – Scientific Journal", 6-2021