Activity
Environmental Change Network: Soil properties

Patterns of soil and vegetation are closely interlinked in areas of natural and semi-natural vegetation, the pattern of vegetation and the distribution of individual plant species both reflecting and influencing the complex interaction of the soil's chemical, physical and biological properties. Changes in soil characteristics may result in changes in vegetation, and vice versa. The link between soils and surface vegetation patterns is largely broken where land is under intensive agricultural management but the inherent soil properties are nevertheless major factors influencing the choice of crops and the type of land management. Soils also exert a strong influence on surface water chemistry and flow regimes, on gas exchange between the atmosphere and the earth's surface, and on the fate of deposited pollutants. Changes in soils take place naturally over time but can also be driven by alterations in pollution climate and land management. The Soil Properties protocol is sub-divided as follows: - Soil survey and classification. Initial survey at 1:10 000 or 1:25 000 scales - Five-yearly monitoring. Samples from cores analysed for major ions - Twenty-yearly monitoring. Samples from soil pits analysed for major ions,heavy metals and physical properties.

General Information

Environmental domain: Lithosphere
Purpose Of collection: Data series
Policy
Keywords: Environmental Change
ECN
soil survey
soil classification
Parameters measured: pH
soil moisture
particle size analysis
soil chemistry
exchange
Soil
soil mineralogy
total nitrogen
total phosphorus
total organic carbon
inorganic carbonate
lead
zinc
cadmium
copper
total mercury
cobalt
molybdenum
arsenic
chromium
nickel
iron
aluminium
phosphorus
bulk density
acidity
sodium
calcium
potassium
manganese
magnesium
erff keywords: E1.3, E1.4, D2.2.1, B1, A4, C14, C16, A4, B2, C1, E3.1.5.2, E1.2.2, D2.2.1, G2.2.1, S3.3
Essential climate variables: River discharge
Land cover
Soil moisture
Aoil carbon
Measurement Regime: variable
Links to data: ECN data centre

Location

Bounding box

This activity uses these facilities/networks:

Wytham
Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon
Porton
Hillsborough
Sourhope
Alice Holt
North Wyke
Moor House - Upper Teesdale
Rothamsted (Harpenden)
Glensaugh research station
Drayton
Cairngorms

This activity is set up for these programmes:

Environmental Change Network

Costs/Funding

Future Funding Status: Unsure

Contacts

Lead organisation: Sue Rennie Centre for Ecology & Hydrology LANCASTER LA1 4AP UK ecnccu@ceh.ac.uk
Funder: Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute BELFAST BT9 5PX UK info@afbini.gov.uk http://www.afbini.gov.uk
Funder: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Polaris House North Star Avenue Swindon WILTSHIRE SN2 1UH UK +44 (0)1793 413200 http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/
Funder: Natural Resources Wales Ty Cambria 29 Newport Road CARDIFF CF24 0TP UK enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk +44 (0) 300 065 3000 http://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk/
Funder: Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Porton Down Salisbury WILTSHIRE SP4 0JQ UK +44 (0) 1980 613000 https://www.dstl.gov.uk/
Funder: Defra 17 Smith Square LONDON SW1P 3JR UK defra.helpline@defra.gsi.gov.uk +44 20 7238 6951 https://www.gov.uk/defra
Funder: Environment Agency National Customer Contact Centre PO Box 544 ROTHERHAM S60 1BY UK enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk 03708 506 506 https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency
Funder: Forestry Commission 620 Bristol Business Park Coldharbour Lane BRISTOL BS16 1EJ UK fe.england@forestry.gsi.gov.uk +44 (0) 117 906 6000 http://www.forestry.gov.uk/
Funder: Welsh Government Cathays Park CARDIFF CF10 3NQ UK 0300 0603300 http://wales.gov.uk/
Funder: Natural England Foundry House 3 Millsands Riverside Exchange SHEFFIELD S3 8NH UK enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk 0300 060 3900 http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council Polaris House North Star Avenue SWINDON SN2 1EU UK +44 (0) 1793 411500 http://www.nerc.ac.uk
Funder: Northern Ireland Environment Agency nieainfo@doeni.gov.uk 0845 302 0008 http://www.doeni.gov.uk/niea/
Funder: Scottish Environment Protection Agency Erskine Court Castle Business Park STIRLING FK9 4TR UK +44 (0) 1786 457700 http://www.sepa.org.uk/
Funder: Scottish Government St. Andrew's House Regent Road EDINBURGH EH1 3DG UK ceu@scotland.gsi.gov.uk 0300 244 4000 http://www.scotland.gov.uk
Funder: Scottish Natural Heritage Leachkin Road INVERNESS IV3 8NW UK enquiries@snh.gov.uk +44 (0) 1463 725000 http://www.snh.gov.uk
Other: ADAS Pendeford House Pendeford Business Park Wobaston Rd Pendeford WOLVERHAMPTON WV9 5AP UK enquiries@adas.co.uk 0845 766 0085 http://www.adas.co.uk/
Other: Forest Research Alice Holt Lodge Farnham SURREY GU10 4LH UK research.info@forestry.gsi.gov.uk 01420 22255 http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch
Other: Marine Scotland Science 375 Victoria Road PO Box 101 ABERDEEN AB11 9DB UK +44 (0)1224 876544 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/science
Other: Rothamsted Research Harpenden HERTFORDSHIRE AL5 2JQ UK + 44 (0) 1582 763 133 http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk
Other: The James Hutton Institute Craigiebuckler Craigiebuckler ABERDEEN AB15 8QH UK info@hutton.ac.uk +44 (0) 844 928 5428 http://www.hutton.ac.uk/
Other: UK Upland Waters Monitoring Network http://awmn.defra.gov.uk/

Metadata

Publication status: PUBLIC
Record identifier: 52b4f0e3-74c8-49f8-b13f-083a85513b19
Last modified: 2017-08-24 10:58:31
Metadata author: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology ecnccu@ceh.ac.uk
Topic categories: Environment
Other identifier: Envirobase 1322763
UKEOF 473313

Activity Environmental Change Network: Soil properties