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New toolkit for housing providers to support wildlife and boost residents' wellbeing

UKCEH has teamed up with a range of partners to develop a 'Biodiversity toolkit' for housing providers, featuring different management options designed to boost wildlife on housing estates and other urban green spaces.

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Field level detail from UKCEH Land Cover Crop Map

Exploring several years of crop map data

With a sixth year of UKCEH Crop Map data now available, we have a unique and highly informative resource for exploring patterns of changes in the British countryside.

Better survival chance for seabirds migrating for winter

Extreme storms on the east coast of Scotland are hitting the survival chances of threatened seabirds on the Isle of May who do not migrate for the winter, a new study shows.

Willow tits find refuge in former mining areas

Britain's fastest-declining bird, the willow tit, is finding refuge in former coal-mining areas in northern England and could be thriving there due to the expanse of land available.

Map showing modelled reduction in ammonia concentrations in Northern Ireland

Reducing ammonia emissions in Northern Ireland

UKCEH is supporting a project to quantify the impact of different strategies to reduce ammonia emissions in Northern Ireland, modelling their effect on nitrogen-sensitive sites.

Protecting insect populations across the UK

A new NERC-funded project will undertake the most comprehensive analysis to date of insect populations in the UK and explore a range of strategies to protect them.

Latest UK Hydrological Summary

January was a wet month at the national scale, with significant winter flooding in many areas. Read more about what this means for UK water resources in the latest hydrological summary.

Top training courses

Hydrometry: River discharge monitoring using ADCPs

Spring 2021, price from £449. Express your interest here.

Using drones to map habitats

21 and 22 April 2021, price from £499. Book here.

Transforming environmental data in R

26, 27 & 29 April 2021, price from £399. Book here

Train the online trainer

Now available on demand, price £209. Book here

from research to impact

Development of the JULES model, a core component of the Met Office Unified Model, is resulting in improved weather forecasts and climate change projections. Learn more about how UKCEH science makes a difference.

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New peer reviewed papers (open or free access)

Landscape controls on riverine export of dissolved organic carbon from Great Britain

Williamson J L, Tye A, Lapworth D J et al. Biogeochemistry. doi: 10.1007/s10533-021-00762-2

Impacts of multiple pollutants on pollinator activity in road verges

Phillips B B, Bullock J M et al. Journal of Applied Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13844

Climate change alters temporal dynamics of alpine soil microbial functioning and biogeochemical cycling via earlier snowmelt

Broadbent A A D, Snell H S K, Michas A et al. The ISME Journal. doi: 10.1038/s41396-021-00922-0

Reconstructing spatiotemporal dynamics in hydrological state along intermittent rivers

Eastman M, Parry S, Sefton C, Park J and England, J. Water. doi: 10.3390/w13040493

Observed soil moisture impact on strong convection over mountainous Tibetan Plateau

Barton E J, Taylor C M, Klein C, Harris, P P and Meng X. Journal of Hydrometeorology. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-20-0129.1

Seasonal biological carryover dominates northern vegetation growth

Lian X, Piao S, Chen A et al. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21223-2

Off-target stoichiometric binding identified from toxicogenomics explains why some species are more sensitive than others to a widely used neonicotinoid

Short S et al. Environmental Science & Technology. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c05125

No severe genetic bottleneck in a rapidly range-expanding bumblebee pollinator

Brock R E et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2639

Grizzled skippers stuck in the south: Population-level responses of an early-successional specialist butterfly to climate across its UK range over 40 years

Bell F, Botham M, Brereton T M, Fenton A, Hodgson J. Diversity and Distributions. doi: 10.1111/ddi.13245

Intraseasonal soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks on the Tibetan Plateau circulation

Talib J, Taylor C M, Duan A and Turner A G. Journal of Climate. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0377.1

Life course air pollution exposure and cognitive decline: Modelled historical air pollution data and the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

Russ T C et al. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. doi: 10.3233/JAD-200910

Understanding mechanisms for trends in Sahelian squall lines: Roles of thermodynamics and shear

Bickle M E, Marsham J H, Ross A N, Rowell D P, Parker D P, Taylor C M. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. doi: 10.1002/qj.3955

Functional rather than structural connectivity explains grassland plant diversity patterns following landscape scale habitat loss

Kimberley A, Hooftman D, Bullock J M et al. Landscape Ecology. doi: 10.1007/s10980-020-01138-x

video: women in science

UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Woman scientist looking through a microscope

The UN designates 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Gender bias and discrimination continue to hold back many women and girls from participating fully in Science, Tech, Engineering and Math. By showcasing our UKCEH colleagues, we hope to encourage others to follow in their footsteps.

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event reminder

Registration closes on Sunday 28 February for this year's annual meeting of the Community of Air Pollution Researchers (CAPER). This year's event will take place online on 23-24 March and includes discussion of findings from the Nitrogen Futures project. Find out more and register here.

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