Science Policy UK: NERC Annual Report and Accounts 09/10 published
The Annual Report and Accounts of the Natural Environment Research Council are just available online.
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Biodiversity UK: 2010 Assessment report of Countryside Survey 2007
Just published, the 2010 integrated assessment report of the UK Countryside Survey 2007, with a huge amount of information on trends in indicators linked explicitly to ecosystem services. /....
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In summary:
Stable or improving: Indicators linked to freshwaters and soils were stable or improving. As they underpin many regulating and supporting services these service categories were also generally stable or improving.
Declining: Plant diversity indicators were declining (an 8% reduction in number of species in 200m2 vegetation plots between 1978 and 2007) as was nectar plant diversity, used here as an indicator of one aspect of the regulating service of pollination. Cultural indicators linked to plant species diversity and landscape had also declined.
Plus a lot of detailed analysis of trends observed for specific services linked to freshwaters, soils, plant diversity, pollinator food plants and an exploration of the use of CS data to assess cultural services and interactions between services.