Description:
The UK-SCAPE programme will undertake research and provide national-scale data and models designed to deliver new integrated understanding of the environment to tackle those challenges. It will improve our understanding of the consequences of interventions in the UK landscape and allow researchers to answer high-level questions relating to the environment.
WP 1 An integrated monitoring programme for the natural environment
Long-term national monitoring is important for assessing the status of the environment and for helping to understand the causes of change
Originator:
CEH
Is this an existing or new approach to measuring landscape change?:
New
Aspect of landscape:
Spatial coverage:
UK wide research which could be useful as a data input for National Park wide monitoring depending on outputs
Landscape Character Type:
Geographical unit:
UK wide data trends
Frequency of measure:
Not clear from information available
Indicator:
Under development. Info recorded in data source
Resource requirements:
Possible data licence
Data source:
Land cover, as a critical component of land-surface models and as a basis for future projections of land-use change and climate impacts.
Soil quality, to fill a critical gap in understanding of the status of soil health, relevant to food security, public health and understanding the climate system.
Biodiversity, through citizen science and field surveys, to assess the status of thousands of wildlife species. This will be supported by a UK virtual Environmental Specimen Bank to facilitate rapid discovery of archived biological specimens.
Water resource assessment of the status and dynamics of hydrological conditions and fluxes across the UK to underpin seasonal hydrology forecasting.
Air quality sensors measuring pollutants and greenhouse gases to help predict impacts on humans and ecosystems.
Submitted by:
Jemma
Countryscape
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