Panel-based Assessment of Ecosystem Condition (PAEC) as a Knowledge Platform for Ecosystem-based Management of Norwegian Arctic Tundra - Brief report

PAEC forms the basis for a consolidated, evidence-based assessment of the ecological condition of an ecosystem. In 2020, the Norwegian Environment Agency commissioned the Norwegian Polar Institute to lead the work with the first operational PAEC of Norwegian Arctic tundra together with other institutions involved in the Climate-ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra (COAT), which we report on here.

Furthermore, the Norwegian Environment Agency asked us in this brief report to: 1) summarise the process, results and conclusions from the first operational PAEC of Norwegian Arctic tundra (Pedersen et al. 2021), 2) identify and analyse drivers of ecological condition and 3) discuss and exemplify how to use PAEC as a knowledge platform for setting ecosystem-based management objectives for Norwegian Arctic tundra.