The UK Environmental Change Network after twenty years of integrated ecosystem assessment: Key findings and future perspectives

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 68, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-12

  Sier, Andrew ^a   Monteith, Don ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Climate change; ECN; Indicators; Long term monitoring; LTER

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; FORESTRY; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS);

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE NETWORKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; LONG TERM MONITORING; LTER; MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOINDICATOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84977930019     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.02.008     Document Type: Article

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