News: Soils and vegetation data are to be recorded in summer 2019 from a set of Countryside Survey sites as part of the Natural Environmental Research Council funded UK-SCAPE programme. Find out more about UK-SCAPE here or email uk-scape@ceh.ac.uk
A study of the character of European heathland vegetation has been undertaken by masters student Dorothea Epperlein which includes data from Countryside Survey. A summary of the work is available here: Heathland vegetation_Abstract english Epperlein.pdf
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