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Environmental Change
Network
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ECN
Objectives
The UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) is the UK's long-term,
integrated environmental monitoring and research programme. ECN
gathers information about the pressures on and responses to environmental
change in physical, chemical and biological systems. It is supported
by a consortium of fourteen sponsoring
organisations and seven research organisations. ECN's objectives are:
- To establish and
maintain a selected network of sites within the UK from which to obtain comparable
long-term datasets through the monitoring of a range of variables identified as being of
major environmental importance.
- To provide for the
integration and analysis of these data, so as to identify natural and man-induced
environmental changes and improve understanding of the causes of change.
- To distinguish
short-term fluctuations from long-term trends, and predict future changes.
- To provide, for
research purposes, a range of representative sites with good instrumentation and reliable
environmental information.
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