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Background Natura 2000 network sites provide a wide range of ecosystems services. Efficient management of the sites is essential for their conservation and to ensure the continued delivery of ecosystems services. However, conservation activities come with an administrative and management cost, and, in many cases, management plans cannot be implemented bec ...

Background The Nitrates Directive (91/676/CEE) was adopted by the EU in 1991 to protect groundwater threatened by overexploitation of agricultural land and the accumulation of nitrates. In those areas where agriculture forms the basis of the local economy, the overexploitation of land gives rise to a series of problems linked to massive chemical fertilisa ...