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Number of time series available showing increasing, decreasing or no trends in dissolved inorganic nitrogen and orthophosphate concentrations for each regional sea during the period 1980-2019

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The different sea regions are presented in the Y axis. The X axis corresponds to the number of time series with statistically significant decreasing trends (green), increasing trends (orange) and no trends (grey). Statistical significance at p<0.05.

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Methodology:: Using as a base the dataset produced for the MAR005 CSI021 SEBI015 Nutrients in transitional coastal and marine waters_2021 Indicator, the number of locations with significant decreasing trends (green), increasing trends (orange) and no trends (grey) was counted for sea regions and these values were plotted in a bar-type chart.
Units:: Number of time series (entire numbers)
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and https://www.emodnet-chemistry.eu/data/acknowledgement
Copyrights of the figure: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Processors:: AZTI
Figure type:: Graph

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- Trends in concentrations of the nutrients, nitrogen (dissolved inorganic nitrogen — DIN) and phosphorus (orthophosphate), in the upper 10m of the water column in European seas during the season of low phytoplankton growth (SLPG) are shown for the period 1980-2019.
- Green bars indicate stations with significant (p<0.05) decreasing trends; orange bars show stations with significant (p<0.05) increasing trends; and grey bars show stations with no significant trends.
- The temporal range specified is the maximum range of dates for raw observations but this range varies upon the availability of observations at each location.
- DIN refers to the sum of ammonium, nitrite and nitrate concentrations, although in many samples not all three forms of nitrogen were measured.
- Data were aggregated into squares with sides of 0.01 degree for coastal stations (within 20 km from the coastline) and 0.05 degree for open water stations.
- SLPG was considered August-October in the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, January-March in the Baltic Sea and January-February in the other regional seas.
- Temporal trends were estimated with the non-parametric Mann-Kendall test. Only stations having data of at least 5 years and having at least data in the last 5-year period (2015-2019) were considered. A p-value<0.05 was used to consider a statistically significant trend.