At UKCEH, we are dedicated stewards of environmental data. The data, tools and models we host are essential to preserving our environment. See the case studies below to learn how we create and manage ...

Understanding soil functions and the ecosystem services delivered is key to maintaining healthy soil. Seven major soil functions and the Ecosystem Services they provide (EC, 2006) following the ...

SPEED is developing a biodiversity case study to explore how UK native species might change under plausible scenarios of environmental and socioeconomic change. This work aims to demonstrate the ...

Enhance and integrate data on air, soil, biodiversity, and water. Improve our understanding of the consequences of interventions in the UK landscape. Help us to protect and enhance the environment ...

To understand how the plant-soil-system responds to climate, land use change and other drivers at a national scale requires repeated, long-term co-located measurements of vegetation and soils in the ...

All projects within the UK-SCAPE programme have contributed to the catalogue. Each item is presented as a standalone record displaying metadata to describe the content, in a very similar way to the ...

Floods and droughts have the potential to cause major disruption to livelihoods, infrastructure and the economy. A sound understanding of current hydrological status and water resources, and trends in ...

The UK Status, Change and Projections of the Environment (UK-SCAPE) programme is one of UKCEH’s major activities delivering significant UK National Capability. Its vision is the development of a whole ...

Air quality has major impacts on the environment and human health. Understanding of emissions, transport, chemical transformations, and deposition of air pollutants is of paramount importance if we ...

Butterflies are uniquely placed amongst British terrestrial insect and other invertebrate groups to act as indicators of the state of the environment, allowing us to assess the impacts of climate ...

With reports of dramatic losses of insects occurring across the globe, and concern about what this means for wider biodiversity and ecosystem health, there has never been a more important time to ...

Providing a trusted forecast of the likely state of UK river flows and groundwater levels can benefit people in a wide range of sectors, such as water and energy companies, farmers and local ...