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Special Issue marking 20 years of detailed environmental monitoring by ECN
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'Assessing ecosystem resilience through Long Term Ecosystem Research: observations from the first twenty years of the UK Environmental Change Network' was a Special Issue of the journal Ecological Indicators published in 2016 and showcasing a range of research using ECN data and sites.
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Fine-scale temporal characterization of trends in soil water dissolved organic carbon and potential drivers
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* INCLUDES 'WHY IT MATTERS' FEATURE * This paper, published in a Special Issue of the journal Ecological Indicators to mark 20 years of data collection at ECN terrestrial sites, presents an analysis of the temporal relationships between soil solution chemistry and parameters thought to regulate Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) production. Data from both ECN and Forest Level II plots were used.
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The first 20 years of the ECN at North Wyke, Devon
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This report highlights key changes in climate, pollution and biodiversity during the first 20 years of monitoring at Rothamsted Research's ECN North Wyke site near Okehampton, Devon.
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Evidence for increases in vegetation species richness across the UK Environmental Change Network sites linked to changes in air pollution and weather patterns
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* INCLUDES 'WHY IT MATTERS' FEATURE * This paper, published in a Special Issue of the journal Ecological Indicators to mark 20 years of data collection at ECN terrestrial sites, uses detailed ECN vegetation data. The data suggest that species richness has increased at the sites during the period 1993-2012
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Providing information on environmental change: Data management, discovery and access in the UK Environmental Change Network Data Centre
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This paper, published in a Special Issue of the journal Ecological Indicators to mark 20 years of data collection at ECN terrestrial sites, discusses ECN's informatics approach, which aims to develop a seamless system of data capture, management and data access interfaces to support research.
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The UK Environmental Change Network after twenty years of integrated ecosystem assessment: Key findings and future perspectives
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This paper, in the journal Ecological Indicators is the editorial paper for a Special Issue marking 20 years of data collection at ECN terrestrial sites.
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New online archive of Charles Elton’s field notes - including from Wytham Wood
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Charles Sutherland Elton is credited with framing the basic principles of modern animal ecology and conducted much work at Wytham Woods, now an ECN site
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Vegetation exerts a greater control on litter decomposition than climate warming in peatlands
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To compare the effects of climate warming and vegetation change on decomposition and carbon accumulation, the team led by Sue Ward (Lancaster University) conducted an experiment on peatland at the Moor House-Upper Teesdale ECN site in the North Pennines. ECN meteorological data were used.
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Taking the environment's pulse: NERC Planet Earth
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An article in NERC's Planet Earth magazine on 20 years of observation and research at the ECN's terrestrial sites.
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Rothamsted Research publishes booklet on 20 years of ECN measurements
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A new booklet by Tony Scott, the ECN Site Manager at Rothamsted, provides a brief overview of the physical and chemical measurements that are routinely measured at the site, as part of the Long-term Experiments National Capability (LTE-NC) and the United Kingdom Environmental Change Network (ECN).
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