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IntroductionPartnershipsPolicyScience
Monitoring, data and research to understand environmental change
We are the UK's long-term environmental monitoring and research programme. For over 20 years we have made regular measurements of air, soil, water and a range of animals and plants across a network of sites to determine how and why the natural environment is changing.
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IntroductionSciencePartnershipsPolicy
Understanding environmental change. Supporting environmental science
Our data are used to detect and understand trends in the environment and in the presence and abundance of plants and animals. We support researchers by providing long-term environmental datasets and well-instrumented sites for field research.
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IntroductionSciencePolicyPartnerships
Science to support policymaking and management of natural resources
ECN’s data and expertise are relevant to a range of environmental policy issues including climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss. Long-term monitoring can inform policies and check how well they work.
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IntroductionSciencePolicyPartnerships
An active consortium with links across the globe
ECN is a partnership of UK organisations responsible for environmental policies and natural resource management. We also work with similar networks in other countries. ECN is the UK node of ILTER, the International Long-Term Ecological Research Network.
Access our 20 year datasets
We now have 20 years of data (1993-2012) for our longest running sites. To mark this milestone, we have added a set of datasets to the CEH Environmental Information Platform. These datasets contain the complete run of data available from our terrestrial sites. Data for eight of the sites span the entire 20 year period. A further four sites began operating after 1993.
Data
- Explore & plot summary data
- View data time series
- Request full datasets
- 20 year datasets (1993-2012)
- Explore environmental indicators
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Featured Publication
Special Issue marking 20 years of detailed environmental monitoring by ECN
Featured site: North Wyke
A lowland grassland site typical of conditions in wetter, western Britain, with predominately impermeable clays of the Culm Measures. Current research at North Wyke is helping to address some of agriculture’s most pressing challenges, for example mitigating and adapting to climate change, protecting natural resources and sustaining the rural economy in grassland dominated regions.