Wadden Sea Quality Status Report
The Wadden Sea Quality Status Report (QSR) is an online conglomeration of thematic reports on the Wadden Sea, including islands and offshore areas. The reports are sorted in five sections: geomorphology, habitats, species, human activities and pollution. Each thematic report can be downloaded as PDF.
The report went online in 2017. In 2022, updates were given to the reports on alien species, breeding birds, engergy, fish, flyway, marine mammals, migratory birds, subtidal habitats and tourism, with the most recent set of data given on the QSR website: qsr.waddensea-worldheritage.org.
Visit qsr.waddensea-worldheritage.org for the current QSR version. A complete set of all reports as PDFs (downloaded 09.09.2022) can be downloaded in a zip-file here.
Direct links to each chapter:
Introduction | 2017 | |
Geomorphology and climate | Climate change | 2017 |
Climate ecosystems | 2017 | |
Geomorphology | 2017 | |
Habitats and communities | Beaches and dunes | 2017 |
Beds of blue mussels and Pacific oysters | 2017 | |
Estuaries | 2017 | |
Macrozoobenthos | 2017 | |
Salt marshes | 2017 | |
Seagrass | 2017 | |
Subtidal habitats | 2022 | 2017 | |
Species | Alien species | 2022 | 2017 |
Breeding birds | 2022 | 2017 | |
East Atlantic Flyway | 2022 | 2017 | |
Fish | 2022 | 2017 | |
Marine mammals | 2022 | 2017 | |
Migratory birds | 2022 | 2017 | |
Human activities | Coastal risk management | 2017 |
Energy | 2022 | 2017 | |
Extraction and dredging | 2017 | |
Fisheries | 2017 | |
Harbours and shipping | 2017 | |
Landscape and culture | 2017 | |
Military activities | 2017 | |
Tourism | 2022 | 2017 | |
Pollution | Contaminants in bird eggs | 2017 |
Eutrophication | 2017 | |
Marine litter | 2017 | |
Oil pollution and seabirds | 2017 |