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      <organizationName>SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics</organizationName>
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        <givenName>Chiara</givenName>
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      <organizationName>Institute for Agricultural Ecology and Biodiversity( IFAB), Germany</organizationName>
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    <pubDate>2025-09-15</pubDate>
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      <para>European Monitoring of Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes (EMBAL) is a project was commissioned by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV). It is a LUCAS-compatible field survey that visits 500 × 500m plots chosen from a 2 × 2 km grid across all EU-27 during the peak phenological period. In each campaign it records land-cover, landscape elements, habitat types, plot-scale biodiversity and pollination resources.This EMBAL viewer provides access to EMBAL data and plots without georeferenced information or the field photographs collected by surveyors.</para>
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        <onlineDescription>EMBAL toolkit</onlineDescription>
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            <calendarDate>2022-09-15</calendarDate>
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            <calendarDate>2023-09-15</calendarDate>
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      <organizationName>Joint Research Centre, European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)</organizationName>
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          <para>1,2,3 (2026): European Monitoring of Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes (EMBAL). European Commission, Joint Research Centre [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.H0E5N7G PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/723355a8-e549-4691-9c0d-83ab7fc7a0c4</para>
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