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This is the second state of natural capital report published by the Natural Capital Committee in March 2014.
Advice to government by the NCC on research priorities for various aspects of the sustainable use and restoration of natural capital.
Research developing metrics and assessing the risk to natural capital.
Environment Agency report which looks at the impact that removing or changing a weir (a low dam built across a river) has on rivers and their ecosystems.
This report has been produced to raise awareness of the scale of pollution caused by abandoned mines and the work that the Environment Agency, Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Coal Authority are doing to counte…
This study has investigated the controls on the distribution of exposed riverine sediment habitat, their invertebrate fauna and the impact of river management.
Red-rated evaluation of Defra impact assessment of biodiversity offsetting requirements in planning policy
A technical report describing status of the environment in and around the Humber Estuary
Annual updates on UK and global biodiversity expenditure.
A report on the progress on implementation of the Habitats Directive Implementation Review.
environment factsheet
This project was designed to review the knowledge and information we have to target further research and monitoring of phosphorus pollution.
Update on progress from the Marine Evidence Group on key evidence gaps identified in the Habitats and Wild Birds Directives Review.
This report describes changes to the diatom and macrophyte assessment methods used to classify macrophytes and phytobenthos for the Water Framework Directive.
This is the first state of natural capital report published by the Natural Capital Committee in April 2013.
List of exotic global breeds at risk (EGBAR)
Final report from the Ecosystem Markets Task Force on why nature matters for businesses.
The project investigated the ecological impact of metals in rivers and proposed a new way to set water quality targets for aquatic ecosystems affected by long-term mining pollution.
Diatom tool to help implement the classification requirements of the Water Framework Directive in the UK and other EU member states.
This study investigates different approaches for streamlining the taxon lists used in the Trophic Diatom Index.
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