While each UKCEH science infrastructure has its own unique purpose and capabilities, our whole portfolio is strategically planned and managed to enable integrated research across the whole land-based environment:
- To address the most important UK and global strategic goals and challenges
- To provide broad-scale coverage of the UK and its landscapes as whole systems
- To provide intensive, in-depth measurement of specific environmental systems, habitats and land-uses
- To reveal and predict environmental processes, interconnections, status and change across all scales: from local field or city to landscape to national scale
- To study the whole UK environmental system, encompassing different land use and habitat types including: land, soil, water and air; uplands and lowlands; urban and rural; agriculture and woodland; and so on
