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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...

Out now!

Submitted by Claire Wood on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 08:05

New paper published:

Henrys, P.A. and Jarvis, S.G., 2019. Integration of ground survey and remote sensing derived data: Producing robust indicators of habitat extent and condition. Ecology and Evolution.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.5376

New CS Rolling Survey: field survey underway

Submitted by Claire Wood on Thu, 05/23/2019 - 12:25

Following a successful training course near Kendal, five survey teams are now at large in the British countryside, collecting soil and recording vegetation information from a number of Countryside Survey sites as part of the Natural Environmental Research Council funded UK-SCAPE programme. Surveying in 2019 continues until September.

Just published!

Submitted by Claire Wood on Fri, 04/05/2019 - 09:08

Just published:

Jarvis, S. G., Henrys, P. A., Keith, A. M., Mackay, E., Ward, S. E., & Smart, S. M. (2019). Model‐based hypervolumes for complex ecological data. Ecology, e02676.