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Hillsborough (COSMOS)
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Bickley Hall
Bickley Hall Farm is an organic working farm in the heart of run by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust. The wildlife-friendly farm management regime is supported by Natural England's Countryside Stewardship Scheme to maintain species-rich hay meadows and pastures. Soils are...
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Wytham Woods (COSMOS)
This platform is located in a loop of the River Thames 5km north west of Oxford on an estate owned by the University of Oxford. The woodlands are a designated SSSI and also host an ECN and FLUXNET monitoring site. The COSMOS-UK ceased operation in 2016.
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The Lizard
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Easter Bush
Easter Bush is located to the south of Edinburgh, close to the UKCEH Edinburgh site on the Bush Estate at Penicuik. It is co-located with an eddy covariance flux monitoring site. It is a grassland site with a typical loamy mineral soil.
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Stiperstones
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Cochno
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Gisburn Forest
Gisburn is at the eastern edge of the Forest of Bowland above Stocks Reservoir in the headwaters of the River Hodder. The site is hosted by Forest Research. Within the footprint of the CRNS is a patchwork of conferious forest at different stages of growth. The site...
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Redmere
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Waddesdon
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Glenwherry
This site is located at the CAFRE (College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise) Hill Farm Centre in Glenwherry, midway between Ballymena and Larne. The ~1000 ha farm comprises 100 suckler cows and 1100 breeding ewes and strives to demonstrate effective integration...
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Spen Farm
Spen Farm together with Headley Hall and Wise Warren are the three farms that comprise the University of Leeds Research Farm. Spen Farm houses the The National Pig Centre, part of the Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock (CIEL). The COSMOS-UK site is on the...
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Harwood Forest
Harwood Forest is managed by the Forestry Commission. Close to 90% of the forested area is Sitka spruce although current restocking proposals are to increase species diversity including native broadleaf planting. The COSMOS-UK site is co-located with a greenhouse gas...
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Fivemiletown
This site is located at a working farm in County Tyrone, and is one of three COSMOS-UK sites situated in Northern Ireland. The arable field in which the COSMOS-UK site is located slopes gently to the south.
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COSMOS-UK
COSMOS-UK is a network of soil moisture monitoring sites in the UK. It provides data for use in a variety of applications including farming, water resources, flood forecasting and land-surface modelling. Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, the network...
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Hartwood Home Farm
Hartwood Home Farm is located near Shotts in Lanarkshire, in an area of upland farms devoted to stock rearing. The soils are heavy, poorly drained gleys typical of soils found in this part of central Scotland. High rainfall combined with poor drainage mean "poaching"...
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Tadham Moor
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Wimpole
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Fincham
Fincham is a privately owned farm and food processing plant in northwest Norfolk. The COSMOS-UK site is situated in a large, flat arable crop field with winter wheat, oil seed rape and sugar beet on 6 year rotation. The soil type is chalky loam, a calcareous mineral...
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Writtle