Ecosystem services variables from the UK Environmental Change Network (ECN)

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• Last updated: 16 February 2023
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73 ecosystem services variables for 11 Environmental Change Network (ECN) sites throughout the UK mainland. The variables cover provisioning (food, fibre, fuel, genetic resources, biochemical and pharmaceuticals, ornamental), regulating (air quality regulation, climate regulation, water regulation, erosion, human diseases, biological control, pollination, natural hazard, other hazards) and cultural (cultural diversity) service types. The list of variables was agreed at an ECN site manager's workshop as representative of the high level categories defined by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. The variables were calculated from data from three sources (i) data collected for the ECN to standard ECN protocols, (ii) data obtained by site managers from a variety of other sources for their site and (iii) expert knowledge of site managers. The data were from a single year (usually 2009) or were averages of annual measurements. Established in 1992, the ECN is the UK's long-term environmental monitoring and research programme and makes 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. The ECN is a multi-agency programme sponsored by a consortium of UK government departments and agencies. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2c5f823d-0dca-4e66-b021-de3e81131979

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2021-06-25T18:39:38
• Access contraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Dick, J., Andrews, C., Beaumont, D.A., Benham, S., Brooks, D.R., Corbett, S., Lloyd, D., McMillan, S., Monteith, D.T., Pilgrim, E.S., Rose, R., Scott, A., Scott, T., Smith, R.I., Taylor, C., Taylor, M., Turner, A., Watson, H. (2011). Ecosystem services variables from the UK Environmental Change Network (ECN). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/2c5f823d-0dca-4e66-b021-de3e81131979
• Harvest GUID: 2c5f823d-0dca-4e66-b021-de3e81131979
• Extent: Latitude: 60.861° to 49.864°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.648° to 1.768°
• Dataset reference date: 2011-04-01 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2010-01-29 (creation)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (pointOfContact); NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre (custodian); Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (author); Rothamsted Research (author); Forest Research (author); DSTL (author); Countryside Council for Wales (author); ADAS UK Ltd (author); The James Hutton Institute (author); NERC Environmental Information Data Centre (publisher)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
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