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UKCEH has led advances that couple citizen science with emerging technology to rapidly improve the quality, quantity and rate of flow of INNS data - for example by introducing online recording through the iRecord website and by developing smartphone apps, such as Asian Hornet Watch, that make it quick and easy for volunteers to report sightings of INNS.","infrastructureCategory":["Wildlife monitoring schemes"],"infrastructureChallenge":["Sustainable ecosystems: biodiversity net gain"],"infrastructureClass":["Environmental observatories"],"infrastructureScale":"UK","metadataDate":"2025-04-09T09:24:56.000Z","recordType":"Science infrastructure","resourceIdentifier":["https://catalogue-staging.ceh.ac.uk/id/5dc8cdba-e8cd-4e30-b07e-9001a40a728b","https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/2f8f9c40-c5e0-4933-8330-7ec78fd7b0aa"],"resourceType":"Science infrastructure","scienceArea":"Biodiversity","shortenedDescription":"The purpose of GBNNSIP is to collect sightings of, and provide information and alerts for, non-native species across Great Britain.  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The models are used for environmental risk assessment: (1) to understand the behaviour of metals in soil and water, and what controls their solubility; and (2) to predict how metal chemistry influences their toxicity to living organisms in soil and water.","documentType":"infrastructurerecord","identifier":"d3dcfcbd-e541-4fb5-99c7-2ffd27a7787c","incomingCitationCount":0,"infrastructureCapabilities":"WHAM is a mechanistic chemistry process model.  Given the chemical composition of a water or soil, WHAM predicts the amounts of each chemical species of metals present.  Metal speciation controls fate in the environment, for example the distribution of a metal between solids and porewater in a soil or sediment.  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ECN provides data for wider UK and international networks, for example making important contributions to the assessment of biodiversity trends at UK, European and global scales.","documentType":"infrastructurerecord","identifier":"826ce25a-1412-403d-a2fc-40cdb8a6feb6","incomingCitationCount":0,"infrastructureCapabilities":"ECN uses common measurement protocols to quantify how the physical, chemical and biological status of ecosystems is responding to a variety of long-term stressors.  Some measurements are unique to ECN - eg intensive soil surveys and soil solution monitoring.  Sites are protected from short-term disturbance to maximise signal-to-noise ratios in environmental data.  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