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Reporting on the impacts of climate change on terrestrial biodiversity
New Report Card aimed at policy makers, land managers, environmental consultants and researchers draws on analyses of ECN data.
Research access to Cairngorms and other northerly research bases
Information about the upcoming INTERACT Transnational Access call.
Spring has arrived!
After what seems to have been a long, cold winter, spring has finally arrived, at least to some parts of the UK.
ECN goes to Greenland!
Two CEH ECN staff have recently travelled to Greenland as part of an EU-funded project.
New site managers at ECN Wallingford
Regretfully we recently said farewell to Michèle Taylor, ECN Site Manager at Wytham Woods. Here we introduce the new Site Managers, Steffi and Denise.
A troublesome wind: new educational walking route near Moor House
The Royal Geographical Society has launched a fact-filled walk in the North Pennines near Moor House, location of Britain's only named wind.
US LTER mini-symposium to be webcast
The US LTER network is running a mini symposium on "The Globalization of Long Term Ecological Research" and it will be broadcast live on the web, starting on 28 February at 08:30 Eastern Standard Time.
ECN is now on Facebook
ECN has created a Facebook page as part of our communication efforts.
ECN data features in talk on spiders
Entomologists in Scotland hear about ECN spider and carabid results.
Paper by international team highlights the scientific value of International LTER
A paper published at the end of 2012 by a team of ILTER members demonstrates the importance of the International Long Term Ecological Research network in studying and monitoring environmental changes at a global level.
Access to European ecosystem research facilities via ExpeER project
Researchers can apply for funds to support research visits to one of 33 European facilities, including some long-term ecosystem research sites. Two ECN sites are included in the scheme.
ECN data reveal declines in ground beetle abundance
Scientists at Rothamsted Research, working with the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and a range of other partners contributing to the Environmental Change Network, have found significant declines in the abundance of ground (carabid) beetles at sites across the UK and have suggested that localised land management can help offset this decline.
From drought to flood: dramatic turnaround in UK water resources
Representatives from the Environment Agency, Met Office and NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) gave a briefing today (18 October 2012) on how the UK's driest spring for over a century gave way to the wettest April to June on record.
Socio-ecological research in the Cairngorms
The LTER community is well-placed to conduct socio-ecological research according to Dr Jan Dick, site coordinator at the Cairngorms ECN site.
Northern lights seen from near ECN sites
The aurora borealis (Northern Lights) were visible from many parts of Scotland and northern England last night (8th October), including from places close to some ECN sites.
ECN is at INTERACT Station Managers' Forum
Chris Andrews (CEH) is representing the Cairngorms site at this meeting of research stations involved in the INTERACT network.
ECN is at ILTER 2012
Representatives of ECN are attending the annual meeting of the International Long Term Ecological Research Network (ILTER).
ECN student's poster scoops prize at soils conference
A Ph.D. student working with ECN data has scooped the runner-up prize in the student poster competition at the recent British Society of Soil Science annual conference.
ECN Cairngorms in project labelled an 'EU success story'
ECN Cairngorms is one of the sites included in the EU's INTERACT research infrastructure project. The on-going project has recently been highlighted by the EU as a success story.
ECN contributes to major review of air pollution
Environmental Change Network data feature in a major new review of transboundary air pollution in the UK and other parts of Europe.
