Report of the Workshop on integrated trend analyses in support to integrated ecosystem assessment (WKINTRA)

The Workshop on Integrated Trend Analyses in Support to Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (WKINTRA) was held in Hamburg, Germany on 28 September 2018. The workshop, chaired by Saskia Otto (Germany) and Benjamin Planque (Norway), was attended by 12 participants from 6 countries.

Integrated trend analyses (ITA) are used by Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) groups as a way to summarize changes that have occurred in recent decades in ecosystems and highlight the possible connections between physical, biological, and human ecosystem components.The general objective of the workshop was to develop good practices in the application of ITA and interpretation of their results to support IEA.