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New app available

Submitted by Claire Wood on Mon, 10/12/2020 - 09:17

Plant diversity and occurrence over 40 years

Find your niche!

Submitted by Claire Wood on Tue, 09/08/2020 - 09:26

See here for a new web-tool that allows those interested in plants to inspect and submit an evaluation of a new series of plant species niche models for the British flora.

See if you can find your favourite plant!

CS Rolling Survey: Year 2 field survey underway

Submitted by Claire Wood on Mon, 06/15/2020 - 15:52

As with many things this year, the second year of the 5 year rolling Countryside Survey field survey has been postponed due to Covid-19.

However, UKCEH surveyors have now made it out into the field again, collecting valuable soils and vegetation data to add to the Countryside Survey time-series.

The 2020 survey will continue until the end of September.

Newly available! Countryside Survey - Resources for schools

Submitted by Claire Wood on Wed, 02/19/2020 - 08:59

Countryside Survey - Resources for Schools

Thanks to the Royal Geographical Society and the Nuffield Foundation (via facilitation from Lancaster University), there are now some Countryside Survey related Resources for Schools available.

The resources are aimed at Key Stage 5 (A Level) and include the following:

National field survey takes advantage of innovative technology

Submitted by Claire Wood on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 15:33

Recent advances in technology are bringing many benefits to a national soil and vegetation survey currently being carried out by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) as part of our UK-SCAPE programme.

Read this blog post to find out more...