Interannual variability, stability and resilience in UK plant communities

Morecroft, Michael D.; Bealey, Clive E.; Scott, William; Taylor, M.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.11.040

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“…The data included within these datasets have been the focus of a number of peer-reviewed scientific publications over the past 20 years. For example, linking meteorological data with invertebrate species data for exploring the impact of drought (Morecroft et al, 2002), exploring trends in the physical and biological environment (Morecroft et al, 2009), determining that hydrochloric acid deposition was a driver of UK soil acidification (Evans et al, 2011), and investigating declines in carabid beetle biodiversity (Brooks et al, 2012). Many of the datasets were incorporated in papers forming a journal special issue marking the first 20 years of the ECN (Sier and Monteith, 2016b).…”

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“…Many of the datasets were incorporated in papers forming a journal special issue marking the first 20 years of the ECN (Sier and Monteith, 2016b). This special issue demonstrates how effective the datasets are in assessing and interpreting environmental change, covering a breadth of topics, such as trends in weather and atmospheric deposition ; trends in dissolved organic carbon (Sawicka et al, 2016;Moody et al, 2016); various aspects of change in UK plant communities (Rose et al, 2016;Morecroft et al, 2016;Pallett et al, 2016;Milligan et al, 2016), ecosystem services (Dick et al, 2016), and carabid beetle communities (Eyre et al, 2016;Pozsgai et al, 2016); the use of digital imaging to assess vegetation cover (Baxendale et al, 2016); and the response of Lepidoptera communities to warming (Martay et al, 2016). A full catalogue of the peer-reviewed papers that have used ECN data are available on the website (ECN Publications Catalogue, 2019).…”

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The UK Environmental Change Network datasets – integrated and co-located data for long-term environmental research (1993–2015)

Rennie

Andrews

Atkinson

et al. 2020

Earth Syst. Sci. Data

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Abstract. Long-term datasets of integrated environmental variables, co-located together, are relatively rare. The UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) was launched in 1992 and provides the UK with its only long-term integrated environmental monitoring and research network for the assessment of the causes and consequences of environmental change. Measurements, covering a wide range of physical, chemical, and biological “driver” and “response” variables are made in close proximity at ECN terrestrial sites using protocols incorporating standard quality control procedures. This paper describes the datasets (there are 19 published ECN datasets) for these co-located measurements, containing over 20 years of data (1993–2015). The data and supporting documentation are freely available from the NERC Environmental Information Data Centre under the terms of the Open Government Licence using the following DOIs. Meteorology Meteorology: https://doi.org/10.5285/fc9bcd1c-e3fc-4c5a-b569-2fe62d40f2f5 (Rennie et al., 2017a) Biogeochemistry Atmospheric nitrogen chemistry: https://doi.org/10.5285/baf51776-c2d0-4e57-9cd3-30cd6336d9cf (Rennie et al., 2017b) Precipitation chemistry: https://doi.org/10.5285/18b7c387-037d-4949-98bc-e8db5ef4264c (Rennie et al., 2017c) Soil solution chemistry: https://doi.org/10.5285/b330d395-68f2-47f1-8d59-3291dc02923b (Rennie et al., 2017d) Stream water chemistry: https://doi.org/10.5285/fd7ca5ef-460a-463c-ad2b-5ad48bb4e22e (Rennie et al., 2017e) Stream water discharge: https://doi.org/10.5285/8b58c86b-0c2a-4d48-b25a-7a0141859004 (Rennie et al., 2017f) Invertebrates Moths: https://doi.org/10.5285/a2a49f47-49b3-46da-a434-bb22e524c5d2 (Rennie et al., 2017g) Butterflies: https://doi.org/10.5285/5aeda581-b4f2-4e51-b1a6-890b6b3403a3 (Rennie et al., 2017h) Carabid beetle: https://doi.org/10.5285/8385f864-dd41-410f-b248-028f923cb281 (Rennie et al., 2017i) Spittle bugs: https://doi.org/10.5285/aff433be-0869-4393-b765-9e6faad2a12b (Rennie et al., 2018) Vegetation Baseline: https://doi.org/10.5285/a7b49ac1-24f5-406e-ac8f-3d05fb583e3b (Rennie et al., 2016a) Coarse grain: https://doi.org/10.5285/d349babc-329a-4d6e-9eca-92e630e1be3f (Rennie et al., 2016b) Woodland: https://doi.org/10.5285/94aef007-634e-42db-bc52-9aae86adbd33 (Rennie et al., 2017j) Fine grain: https://doi.org/10.5285/b98efec8-6de0-4e0c-85dc-fe4cdf01f086 (Rennie et al., 2017k) Vertebrates Frogs: https://doi.org/10.5285/4d8c7dd9-8248-46ca-b988-c1fc38e51581 (Rennie et al., 2017l) Birds (Breeding bird survey): https://doi.org/10.5285/5886c3ba-1fa5-49c0-8da8-40e69a10d2b5 (Rennie et al., 2017m) Birds (Common bird census): https://doi.org/10.5285/8582a02c-b28c-45d2-afa1-c1e85fba023d (Rennie et al., 2017n) Bats: https://doi.org/10.5285/2588ee91-6cbd-4888-86fc-81858d1bf085 (Rennie et al., 2017o) Rabbits and deer: https://doi.org/10.5285/0be0aed3-f205-4f1f-a65d-84f8cfd8d50f (Rennie et al., 2017p)

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Section: Ecn Datasets In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ecn Datasets In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

The UK Environmental Change Network datasets – integrated and co-located data for long-term environmental research (1993–2015)

Rennie

Andrews

Atkinson

et al. 2020

Earth Syst. Sci. Data

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“…), 2016b). This special issue demonstrates how effective the datasets are in assessing and interpreting environmental change, covering a breadth of topics such as trends in weather and atmospheric deposition ; trends in dissolved organic carbon (Sawicka et al, 2016;5 Moody et al, 2016); various aspect of change in UK plant communities (Rose et al, 2016;Morecroft et al, 2016;Milligan et al, 2016); ecosystem services (Dick et al, 2016) measurements can help integrate these networks and provides temporal scale context for observations made by these networks, for example by providing information on year to year variation in vegetation communities to help inform how CS data can be influenced by weather variability (Scott et al, 2010).…”

Section: Ecn Datasets In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

The UK Environmental Change Network datasets – integrated and co-located data for long-term environmental research (1993–2015)

Rennie¹,

Andrews²,

Atkinson³

et al. 2019

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Abstract. Long-term datasets of integrated environmental variables, co-located together, are relatively rare. The UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) was launched in 1992 and provides the UK with its only long-term integrated environmental monitoring and research network for the assessment of the causes and consequences of environmental change. Measurements, covering a wide range of physical, chemical and biological "driver" and "response" variables are made in close proximity at ECN terrestrial sites using protocols incorporating standard quality control procedures. This paper describes the datasets (there are nineteen published ECN datasets) for these co-located measurements, containing over twenty years of data (1993–2015). The data and supporting documentation are freely available from the NERC Environmental Information Data Centre under the terms of the Open Government Licence using the following DOI’s: Meteorology Meteorology: https://doi.org/10.5285/fc9bcd1c-e3fc-4c5a-b569-2fe62d40f2f5 (Rennie et al., 2017a) Biogeochemistry Atmospheric nitrogen chemistry: https://doi.org/10.5285/baf51776-c2d0-4e57-9cd3-30cd6336d9cf (Rennie et al., 2017b) Precipitation chemistry: https://doi.org/10.5285/18b7c387-037d-4949-98bc-e8db5ef4264c (Rennie et al., 2017c) Soil solution chemistry: https://doi.org/10.5285/b330d395-68f2-47f1-8d59-3291dc02923b (Rennie et al., 2017d) Stream water chemistry: https://doi.org/10.5285/fd7ca5ef-460a-463c-ad2b-5ad48bb4e22e (Rennie et al., 2017e) Stream water discharge: https://doi.org/10.5285/8b58c86b-0c2a-4d48-b25a-7a0141859004 (Rennie et al., 2017f) Invertebrates Moths: https://doi.org/10.5285/a2a49f47-49b3-46da-a434-bb22e524c5d2 (Rennie et al., 2017g) Butterflies: https://doi.org/10.5285/5aeda581-b4f2-4e51-b1a6-890b6b3403a3 (Rennie et al., 2017h) Carabid beetle: https://doi.org/10.5285/8385f864-dd41-410f-b248-028f923cb281 (Rennie et al., 2017i) Spittle bugs: https://doi.org/10.5285/aff433be-0869-4393-b765-9e6faad2a12b (Rennie et al., 2018) Vegetation Baseline: https://doi.org/10.5285/a7b49ac1-24f5-406e-ac8f-3d05fb583e3b (Rennie et al., 2016a) Coarse grain: https://doi.org/10.5285/d349babc-329a-4d6e-9eca-92e630e1be3f (Rennie et al., 2016b) Woodland: https://doi.org/10.5285/94aef007-634e-42db-bc52-9aae86adbd33 (Rennie et al., 2017j) Fine grain: https://doi.org/10.5285/b98efec8-6de0-4e0c-85dc-fe4cdf01f086 (Rennie et al., 2017k) Vertebrates Frogs: https://doi.org/10.5285/4d8c7dd9-8248-46ca-b988-c1fc38e51581 (Rennie et al., 2017l) Birds (Breeding bird survey): https://doi.org/10.5285/5886c3ba-1fa5-49c0-8da8-40e69a10d2b5 (Rennie et al., 2017m) Birds (Common bird census): https://doi.org/10.5285/8582a02c-b28c-45d2-afa1-c1e85fba023d (Rennie et al., 2017n) Bats: https://doi.org/10.5285/2588ee91-6cbd-4888-86fc-81858d1bf085 (Rennie et al., 2017o) Rabbits and deer: https://doi.org/10.5285/0be0aed3-f205-4f1f-a65d-84f8cfd8d50f (Rennie et al., 2017p).

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“…Species have divergent functional attributes and responses to changes in the environment which may affect diversity. It is a common phenomenon that increasing the amounts of soil mineral nitrogen favors the growth of grass at the expense of legumes [24]. Initially, competition for nutrients and water is aggravated in unproductive soils.…”

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Diversified Forage Cropping Systems and Their Implications on Resilience and Productivity

Islam

Ashilenje

2018

Sustainability

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Plant diversity is associated with resilient ecosystems. Loss of plant biodiversity triggered by anthropogenic and climatic factors jeopardizes environmental stability and sustainable forage production. The understanding of biodiversity mechanisms and functional traits of species can help to design forage production systems to buffer against perturbations. Resilience and productivity are linked to plant species characteristics and interactions that enable them to recover from adverse conditions and compensate for the loss of susceptible species. Benefits of diversified crops including enhanced carbon assimilation, nitrogen fixation, and turnover are transferred to soil microbes which in return contribute to resilience against drought and poor soil fertility. In the absence of disturbances, these mechanisms are credited for stability and climax ecosystems. Cultivated systems are more fragile because management interferes with many functions while maintaining few. Strategies that sustain an entire range of functions can increase production regardless of climatic and management factors. This has been demonstrated in binary mixtures of cool season grasses including meadow bromegrass (Bromus biebersteinii Roem. & Schult.), orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.), smooth bromegrass (Bromus inermis Leyss.), and intermediate wheatgrass (Thinopyrum intermedium (Host) Barkworth & D.R. Dewey) with alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Suitable combinations of perennial species and cultivars bred for compatible traits can enhance resilience and productivity in a wide range of ecosystems.

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Interannual variability, stability and resilience in UK plant communities

Cited by 13 publications

References 32 publications

The UK Environmental Change Network datasets – integrated and co-located data for long-term environmental research (1993–2015)

The UK Environmental Change Network datasets – integrated and co-located data for long-term environmental research (1993–2015)

The UK Environmental Change Network datasets – integrated and co-located data for long-term environmental research (1993–2015)

Diversified Forage Cropping Systems and Their Implications on Resilience and Productivity

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