Identification

Title

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

Abstract

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.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/download?fileIdentifier=2c5f823d-0dca-4e66-b021-de3e81131979

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function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

1364978072761

codeSpace

CEH:EIDC:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Habitats and Biotopes

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

ecological assessment

ecosystem service indicators

Environmental Change Network

Keyword set

keyword value

United Kingdom

Alice Holt

Cairngorm

Drayton

Glensaugh

Moor House

North Wyke

Porton Down

Rothamsted

Snowdon

Sourhope

Keyword set

keyword value

Natural Capital

Ecosystem services

Watt Section

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.648

East bounding longitude

1.768

North bounding latitude

60.861

South bounding latitude

49.864

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2005-01-01

End position

2009-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2011-04-01

date type

creation

effective date

2010-01-29

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

A workshop was held in January 2010 where a common list of ecosystem service variables were agreed by the ECN site managers. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (http://www.unep.org/maweb/en/Framework.aspx) was used as a recognised source of definitions and as a framework to identify goods and services for which variables or proxies were required. The 11 selected sites were examined to ensure representativeness of the wider landscape in respect to climate (rainfall and temperature), land cover and land management (through vegetation analysis). The data for these sites have come from several sources. Data collected by the ECN are run through a series of quality assurance checks and a system of quality flags and codes ensures that the data are properly qualified. The other data sources have required the expertise of and knowledge of the sites by the site managers to ensure the representiveness and accuracy of the data.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

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

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

eidc@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Rothamsted Research

email address

north.wyke@rothamsted.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Forest Research

email address

research.info@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Rothamsted Research

email address

foi.rothamsted@rothamsted.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

DSTL

email address

centralenquiries@dstl.gov.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Countryside Council for Wales

email address

ATI@ccw.gov.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

ADAS UK Ltd

email address

enquiries@adas.co.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Rothamsted Research

email address

north.wyke@rothamsted.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Rothamsted Research

email address

foi.rothamsted@rothamsted.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

The James Hutton Institute

email address

info@hutton.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Countryside Council for Wales

email address

ATI@ccw.gov.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

The James Hutton Institute

email address

info@hutton.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

eidc@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

UK

email address

eidc@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-10-18T08:59:41

Metadata language

eng