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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. We make 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.
20 years of ECN data
Terrestrial ECN has been operational for 20 years, supporting scientific research and generating impressive time series of data on a range of driving and response variables. This science-policy symposium will mark the anniversary by reviewing the role of long-term environmental monitoring and research, exploring the value of ECN datasets and ECN sites as research platforms, and by considering how ECN should evolve to meet user needs over the next 20 years.
- When: 12-13 May 2014
- Where: Lancaster University
- Cost: £20
- Register by 25 April
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- Explore & plot summary data
- View data time series
- Request full datasets
- Explore environmental indicators
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Featured Publication
Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change
Featured site: Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon
Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon is an upland ECN site incorporating the summit of Yr Wyddfa or Snowdon, the highest mountain in England and Wales, 19km south-east of Bangor in North Wales. It is co-located with the Nant Teyrn freshwater site. The dominant vegetation is acidic grassland with Festuca ovina (sheep's fescue) and Agrostis species (bent grass) in the drier areas and Nardus stricta (mat grass) in the wetter areas. The site is part of the Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon National Nature Reserve, managed by the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) under agreement with the owner. The land is unenclosed and grazed by sheep and a small herd of feral goats.
