UK Environmental Change Network
@ukecn.bsky.social
A network of organisations & people making regular measurements of air, soil, water, animals & plants at UK sites since 1992. Our data & instrumented research sites support science to determine how & why the natural environment is changing | Web: ecn.ac.uk
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It’s National Tree Week and to mark the occasion, Forest Research staff are sharing the tree species they love most. 💚
🔎🌳 We’ve also updated our 'Easy Guide to Forest Trees and Their Uses' publication: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/publications...
#NationalTreeWeek @thetreecouncil.bsky.social
🔎🌳 We’ve also updated our 'Easy Guide to Forest Trees and Their Uses' publication: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/publications...
#NationalTreeWeek @thetreecouncil.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It’s National Tree Week and to mark the occasion, Forest Research staff are sharing the tree species they love most. 💚
🔎🌳 We’ve also updated our 'Easy Guide to Forest Trees and Their Uses' publication: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/publications...
#NationalTreeWeek @thetreecouncil.bsky.social
🔎🌳 We’ve also updated our 'Easy Guide to Forest Trees and Their Uses' publication: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/publications...
#NationalTreeWeek @thetreecouncil.bsky.social
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❓We’re in a nature crisis – but how do we really know what’s happening?
Indicators give us the facts behind the headlines 👇
In our latest blog we explore the UK’s rich history of #wildlife recording – from Victorian botanical art to today’s cutting-edge data.
🔍 jncc.gov.uk/news/measuri... 🧵
Indicators give us the facts behind the headlines 👇
In our latest blog we explore the UK’s rich history of #wildlife recording – from Victorian botanical art to today’s cutting-edge data.
🔍 jncc.gov.uk/news/measuri... 🧵
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
❓We’re in a nature crisis – but how do we really know what’s happening?
Indicators give us the facts behind the headlines 👇
In our latest blog we explore the UK’s rich history of #wildlife recording – from Victorian botanical art to today’s cutting-edge data.
🔍 jncc.gov.uk/news/measuri... 🧵
Indicators give us the facts behind the headlines 👇
In our latest blog we explore the UK’s rich history of #wildlife recording – from Victorian botanical art to today’s cutting-edge data.
🔍 jncc.gov.uk/news/measuri... 🧵
We had a great meeting today with our wonderful, dedicated terrestrial site managers 👏. We shared updates from our ECN long-term #environmental research and #monitoring sites. It was an opportunity to share successes and challenges and to keep our network going. #research #data #LTER
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We had a great meeting today with our wonderful, dedicated terrestrial site managers 👏. We shared updates from our ECN long-term #environmental research and #monitoring sites. It was an opportunity to share successes and challenges and to keep our network going. #research #data #LTER
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This week, we are sharing the most widespread species recorded on BBS squares across the UK in 2024. They are all common and familiar species! Find out more about taking part in the survey here: www.bto.org/get-involved... @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 AM
This week, we are sharing the most widespread species recorded on BBS squares across the UK in 2024. They are all common and familiar species! Find out more about taking part in the survey here: www.bto.org/get-involved... @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology
'Moor House – an outdoor laboratory' describes the wealth of research undertaken over 70 years at Moor House National Nature Reserve. An accompanying file lists the 1000+ publications describing scientific studies of this northern Pennines area. #ecology #environment #research #monitoring #LTER
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
'Moor House – an outdoor laboratory' describes the wealth of research undertaken over 70 years at Moor House National Nature Reserve. An accompanying file lists the 1000+ publications describing scientific studies of this northern Pennines area. #ecology #environment #research #monitoring #LTER
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At yesterday's 10th annual Cumbrian Lakes Research Forum, we celebrated 80 years of monitoring Windermere and nearby lakes with talks from researchers and lake managers.
Learn more about our monitoring: https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/cumbrian-lakes
Learn more about our monitoring: https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/cumbrian-lakes
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
At yesterday's 10th annual Cumbrian Lakes Research Forum, we celebrated 80 years of monitoring Windermere and nearby lakes with talks from researchers and lake managers.
Learn more about our monitoring: https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/cumbrian-lakes
Learn more about our monitoring: https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/cumbrian-lakes
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⌛Be sure to secure your place TODAY before registration closes. ⌛ #NEMC2025 #environment #ecology #monitoring #observation #data
Take your place at the National Environmental Monitoring Conference next month and help build momentum for a shared UK environmental monitoring vision.
Registration closes tomorrow, 11 Nov: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nati...
@britishecologicalsociety.org @ukeof.bsky.social
Registration closes tomorrow, 11 Nov: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nati...
@britishecologicalsociety.org @ukeof.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
⌛Be sure to secure your place TODAY before registration closes. ⌛ #NEMC2025 #environment #ecology #monitoring #observation #data
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Long-term monitoring tells a story of change. For 80 years scientists have monitored Windermere and nearby lakes in Cumbria, tracking how climate change and pollution are reshaping our freshwater ecosystems.
It’s one of the longest lake datasets anywhere in the world! 🌎
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It’s one of the longest lake datasets anywhere in the world! 🌎
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November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Long-term monitoring tells a story of change. For 80 years scientists have monitored Windermere and nearby lakes in Cumbria, tracking how climate change and pollution are reshaping our freshwater ecosystems.
It’s one of the longest lake datasets anywhere in the world! 🌎
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It’s one of the longest lake datasets anywhere in the world! 🌎
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The #CaSTCo project shows how community data can drive decisions on river management in England & Wales.
UKCEH co-led work on data management with Rivers Trust colleagues, developing CaSTCo Data Governance Principles & supporting best practice in citizen science.
🔗 castco.org/impact-report
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UKCEH co-led work on data management with Rivers Trust colleagues, developing CaSTCo Data Governance Principles & supporting best practice in citizen science.
🔗 castco.org/impact-report
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November 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The #CaSTCo project shows how community data can drive decisions on river management in England & Wales.
UKCEH co-led work on data management with Rivers Trust colleagues, developing CaSTCo Data Governance Principles & supporting best practice in citizen science.
🔗 castco.org/impact-report
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UKCEH co-led work on data management with Rivers Trust colleagues, developing CaSTCo Data Governance Principles & supporting best practice in citizen science.
🔗 castco.org/impact-report
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We are happy to introduce the Soil Ecology SIG @britishecologicalsociety.org! Our aim is to connect soil ecology researchers across career stages, facilitating knowledge exchange and collaboration. Check out www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/plan... and feel free to get in touch!
Soil Ecology Group - British Ecological Society
Understanding the vital ecosystem services provided by soil
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We are happy to introduce the Soil Ecology SIG @britishecologicalsociety.org! Our aim is to connect soil ecology researchers across career stages, facilitating knowledge exchange and collaboration. Check out www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/plan... and feel free to get in touch!
Thanks for highlighting Moor House and this important long-term ecological study. Moor House, in the North Pennines, has a long history of research, including long-term ECN monitoring, and it's great that ECT is supporting Rob's grazing experiment. 🐑 #ecology #research #vegetation #grazing #LTER
Moor House Grazing Plots, #England is the #LTESiteOfTheWeek.
Rob Marrs is testing the effects of removing #grazing sheep across 4 plant community types ranging from #grassland to #peatbog.
Pending the webpage on this site, you can read about it in our #newsletter from 2021: bit.ly/Dec21ECTNews 🌏
Rob Marrs is testing the effects of removing #grazing sheep across 4 plant community types ranging from #grassland to #peatbog.
Pending the webpage on this site, you can read about it in our #newsletter from 2021: bit.ly/Dec21ECTNews 🌏
October 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Thanks for highlighting Moor House and this important long-term ecological study. Moor House, in the North Pennines, has a long history of research, including long-term ECN monitoring, and it's great that ECT is supporting Rob's grazing experiment. 🐑 #ecology #research #vegetation #grazing #LTER
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📢New paper: Night-flying insects over UK in decline, weather radar study reveals @universityofleeds.bsky.social with Rothamsted Insect Survey🦋🐝🪰🦟
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/trillio...
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/trillio...
October 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📢New paper: Night-flying insects over UK in decline, weather radar study reveals @universityofleeds.bsky.social with Rothamsted Insect Survey🦋🐝🪰🦟
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/trillio...
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/trillio...
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"When you check the weather forecast, you’re relying on a vast network of weather stations that quietly gather data across the country." UKEOF partner the Met Office explains all about weather stations and weather observations in their latest blog.
Observations are critical for producing a weather forecast.
Read our latest blog to learn how we gather trusted and accurate weather observations from our network of weather stations across the UK.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/wh...
Read our latest blog to learn how we gather trusted and accurate weather observations from our network of weather stations across the UK.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/wh...
Met Office weather stations: How we measure the weather
When you check the weather forecast, you’re relying on a vast network of weather stations that quietly gather data across the country.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"When you check the weather forecast, you’re relying on a vast network of weather stations that quietly gather data across the country." UKEOF partner the Met Office explains all about weather stations and weather observations in their latest blog.
Thanks for sharing your ECN weather station observations as #StormAmy tracked over the UK, Chris. Great photo as well!
A windy night in the #Cairngorms with our @ukecn.bsky.social weather station located at 700 m recording a gust of 106 mph and sustained winds of 75 mph as #StormAmy rolled through. That’s our highest recorded gust since Dec 2011, 14 years ago!
October 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Thanks for sharing your ECN weather station observations as #StormAmy tracked over the UK, Chris. Great photo as well!
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Secure your place at the 2025 National Environmental Monitoring Conference soon. It's taking place in Edinburgh on 15 December as part of the annual BES meeting. #NEMC2025 #environment #ecosystems #monitoring #observation #data
#NEMC2025: Building the UK Environmental Monitoring Community
📣 Be part of the change
Whether you deliver, use, or benefit from environmental monitoring, your voice matters.
🗓️ Register by 11 Nov 2025
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nati... 🧪
📣 Be part of the change
Whether you deliver, use, or benefit from environmental monitoring, your voice matters.
🗓️ Register by 11 Nov 2025
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nati... 🧪
National Environmental Monitoring Conference - British Ecological Society
The NEMC returns for its second year focusing on: From insight to impact: building the UK environmental monitoring community
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
October 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Secure your place at the 2025 National Environmental Monitoring Conference soon. It's taking place in Edinburgh on 15 December as part of the annual BES meeting. #NEMC2025 #environment #ecosystems #monitoring #observation #data
This new dataset - the GBNVPD - includes ECN vegetation monitoring plot data alongside on-going and historic activities such as Countryside Survey, the National Plant Monitoring Scheme, the National Vegetation Classification and many others. #data #plants #vegetation #ecology
We've brought together a diverse range of high-quality vegetation plot datasets to form a new National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain!
Read more:
www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🌱🌿🧪
Read more:
www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🌱🌿🧪
A National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain
UKCEH has brought together, for the first time, a diverse range of high-quality vegetation plot datasets to form a new National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain – the GBNVPD.
www.ceh.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This new dataset - the GBNVPD - includes ECN vegetation monitoring plot data alongside on-going and historic activities such as Countryside Survey, the National Plant Monitoring Scheme, the National Vegetation Classification and many others. #data #plants #vegetation #ecology
The long-term monitoring addressed in this review is wide-ranging and includes that undertaken by the UK Environmental Change Network. Please take some time to share your views. The closing date is 9am (UK time) on 29th September.
We're leading a review of long-term UK terrestrial & freshwater monitoring for NERC. This will help identify priorities for an adaptable & flexible UK environmental monitoring network for the future
Take part via our survey before 9am Mon 29 Sep: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online...
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Take part via our survey before 9am Mon 29 Sep: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online...
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September 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The long-term monitoring addressed in this review is wide-ranging and includes that undertaken by the UK Environmental Change Network. Please take some time to share your views. The closing date is 9am (UK time) on 29th September.
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Our Management Group met today, part of a quarterly meeting cycle. The discussion covered many aspects of #environmental #monitoring. These are an invaluable - almost unique - opportunity for UK public bodies involved in monitoring to share information & ideas, and to explore working together.
September 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Our Management Group met today, part of a quarterly meeting cycle. The discussion covered many aspects of #environmental #monitoring. These are an invaluable - almost unique - opportunity for UK public bodies involved in monitoring to share information & ideas, and to explore working together.
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This Friday’s lunchtime #webinar will feature Rodrigo Olave from @afbini.gov.uk talking about 36 years of research at Loughgall; the #agroforesty #LTE in #NorthernIreland.
Register: bit.ly/ECTWebinarsE...
#Silvopasture #AgromixProject #Agforward_EU 🌏
Register: bit.ly/ECTWebinarsE...
#Silvopasture #AgromixProject #Agforward_EU 🌏
September 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This Friday’s lunchtime #webinar will feature Rodrigo Olave from @afbini.gov.uk talking about 36 years of research at Loughgall; the #agroforesty #LTE in #NorthernIreland.
Register: bit.ly/ECTWebinarsE...
#Silvopasture #AgromixProject #Agforward_EU 🌏
Register: bit.ly/ECTWebinarsE...
#Silvopasture #AgromixProject #Agforward_EU 🌏
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⌛Hurry! ⌛The call for session proposals for the National Environmental Monitoring Conference 2025 (15 December, Edinburgh) will close on 📆 12 September. Find out more from the @britishecologicalsociety.org website: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nati... #NEMC2025
National Environmental Monitoring Conference - British Ecological Society
The NEMC returns for its second year focusing on: From insight to impact: building the UK environmental monitoring community
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
September 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
⌛Hurry! ⌛The call for session proposals for the National Environmental Monitoring Conference 2025 (15 December, Edinburgh) will close on 📆 12 September. Find out more from the @britishecologicalsociety.org website: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/nati... #NEMC2025
We're using bioacoustic sensors to monitor birds and bats at our long-term monitoring and research site in the Cairngorms, operated by @ukceh.bsky.social: ecn.ac.uk/news/bioacou... 🦅🦇🎤 #monitoring #research #environment #species #LTER
September 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We're using bioacoustic sensors to monitor birds and bats at our long-term monitoring and research site in the Cairngorms, operated by @ukceh.bsky.social: ecn.ac.uk/news/bioacou... 🦅🦇🎤 #monitoring #research #environment #species #LTER
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📆 This 1 hr webinar with speakers from @ukceh.bsky.social could be of interest: Habitat monitoring using drone technology: are we nearly there yet? 24 September, 09:00 UTC / 10:00 UK time. www.mambo-project.eu/events/habit... #monitoring #observation #EO #drones #environment
Webinar: Habitat monitoring using drone technology: are we nearly there yet?
Can drone-based observations provide a viable solution for monitoring habitats? Experts demonstrate through mapping individual hawthorn shrubs in a rewilding setting.
Date: September 24, 2025
Time: ...
www.mambo-project.eu
September 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
📆 This 1 hr webinar with speakers from @ukceh.bsky.social could be of interest: Habitat monitoring using drone technology: are we nearly there yet? 24 September, 09:00 UTC / 10:00 UK time. www.mambo-project.eu/events/habit... #monitoring #observation #EO #drones #environment
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We would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the volunteers who contributed to the Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey this year!!! 🎉 👏 🦋
The survey window closed today, so be sure to enter all of your data to the UKBMS website by the end of October.
@bbs-birds.bsky.social
The survey window closed today, so be sure to enter all of your data to the UKBMS website by the end of October.
@bbs-birds.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the volunteers who contributed to the Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey this year!!! 🎉 👏 🦋
The survey window closed today, so be sure to enter all of your data to the UKBMS website by the end of October.
@bbs-birds.bsky.social
The survey window closed today, so be sure to enter all of your data to the UKBMS website by the end of October.
@bbs-birds.bsky.social
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Urban forests play a vital role in helping reduce the impacts of extreme weather, from cooling to flood mitigation. But urban forests require climate-conscious planning & management to ensure they continue to deliver multiple benefits for generations to come.
🔎 Explore guidance: ow.ly/yjqP50WMENv
🔎 Explore guidance: ow.ly/yjqP50WMENv
Urban Forests - Forest Research
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August 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Urban forests play a vital role in helping reduce the impacts of extreme weather, from cooling to flood mitigation. But urban forests require climate-conscious planning & management to ensure they continue to deliver multiple benefits for generations to come.
🔎 Explore guidance: ow.ly/yjqP50WMENv
🔎 Explore guidance: ow.ly/yjqP50WMENv
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Back from holiday? Catch up on recent UKCEH news with our August newsletter!
🏞️ Latest UK Land Cover Map
🌳 The role of tree disease on woodland soil carbon loss
🪰 Biodiversity improvements masked by poor river scores
🌼 10 years of national plant monitoring
and more!
🔗 🧪 buff.ly/BkNZqzN
🏞️ Latest UK Land Cover Map
🌳 The role of tree disease on woodland soil carbon loss
🪰 Biodiversity improvements masked by poor river scores
🌼 10 years of national plant monitoring
and more!
🔗 🧪 buff.ly/BkNZqzN
August 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Back from holiday? Catch up on recent UKCEH news with our August newsletter!
🏞️ Latest UK Land Cover Map
🌳 The role of tree disease on woodland soil carbon loss
🪰 Biodiversity improvements masked by poor river scores
🌼 10 years of national plant monitoring
and more!
🔗 🧪 buff.ly/BkNZqzN
🏞️ Latest UK Land Cover Map
🌳 The role of tree disease on woodland soil carbon loss
🪰 Biodiversity improvements masked by poor river scores
🌼 10 years of national plant monitoring
and more!
🔗 🧪 buff.ly/BkNZqzN