North Wyke - United Kingdom

Basic Information
Site Name
North Wyke
Short name
T05
Country
United Kingdom
Web Address
ECN website
Operating Organisation
Rothamsted Research
Site Manager
Deborah Beaumont
Site Description
UK ECN site. North Wyke (latitude 3o 54’ W; longitude 50o 46’N) lies in undulating countryside 7 km to the north of Dartmoor National Park, midway between the villages of South and North Tawton. The site covers 250 ha, of which 200 ha are grassland and 50 ha are deciduous woodland at an altitude of 120 m to 180 m. A lowland grassland site typical of conditions in wetter, western Britain, with predominately impermeable clays of the Culm Measures. ECN is funded through the Rothamsted Long-Term Experiments National Capability (LTE- NCG). Details available at http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/long-term-experiments-national-capability.
Last modified
2023-07-28 10:07:32

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
1992
Observed properties
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
ILTER✔This site is a verified "ILTER" member.
LTER Europe✔This site is a verified "LTER Europe" member.
UK ECN✔ (LTER_EU_UK_051)This site is a verified "UK ECN" member.
COSMOS-UK✖The affiliation of this site with "COSMOS-UK" is not verified by the network on DEIMS-SDR.
Projects
eLTER (H2020)
eLTER catalogue
Photos
Air chemistry monitoring, ECN North Wyke
Air chemistry monitoring, ECN North Wyke
Meadow at ECN North Wyke
Meadow at ECN North Wyke
Moth light trap at North Wyke
Moth light trap at North Wyke
Cattle at ECN North Wyke
Cattle at ECN North Wyke
Farm tractors at work, ECN North Wyke
Farm tractors at work, ECN North Wyke
Making soil solution measurements at North Wyke
Making soil solution measurements at North Wyke
Farmland in winter at ECN North Wyke
Farmland in winter at ECN North Wyke
Geographic
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Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 50.777686 Longitude: -3.910108

Size
ca. 250.00ha
Elevation (average)
159.00msl
Elevation (min)
120.00msl
Elevation (max)
180.00msl
Related location(s)
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Site information [.json]

Centroid/representative coordinates [.shp] [.kml]
Bounding Box [.shp] [.kml]
Boundaries [.shp] [.kml]
GEO-BON Biome
Terrestrial
Biome
Grasslands
Ecosystem Type
Agricultural
Grasslands
Biogeographical Region
Atlantic Bio-geographical Region
EUNIS habitat
Grasslands and lands dominated by forbs, mosses or lichens (E)
Air Temperature: Average Annual
9.34°C
Precipitation Annual
1467.50mm
Vegetation
Most of the culm measure land is sown to long term leys, some of which have a high clover content. Deciduous woodlands cover 50 ha. In 1988 spaced trees were planted on 5 ha of land for an agroforestry experiment and a further 2 ha have been planted at conventional woodland density. Small pockets of semi-natural grassland and the deciduous woodlands have been left relatively unmanaged.
Soils
The land area extends to 250 ha, the majority of which is poorly drained Culm Measures clays principally of the Hallsworth and Halstow series. Seven hectares are of free draining redland of the Crediton series.
Site Type
Stationary land-based site
Design of Experimentation
partly experimentation
Scale of Experimentation
micro sites
Design of Observation
mainly observation
Scale of Observation
plot without link to explicit catchment
Permanent Power Supply
Yes
Equipment
Data infrastructure » Data services » Data portal
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Structured file
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Spatial data file (GIS)
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Relational database
Accessible All Year
Yes
All parts of Site Accessible
Yes
Access Type
regular car
Permanent Operation
No
Operation Notes
ECN terrestrial monitoring is carried out at least once every 7 days
Site Visit Interval
7
Maintenance Interval
7
Data Policy Notes
The ECN datasets are hosted by the NERC Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC - http://eidc.ceh.ac.uk/), managed by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) - https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/4971bce4-8a81-4e23-9637-7fcff37c5f21. They are available under the Open Government Licence and can be cited via DOI's (digital object identifier).
Data Policy URL
http://data.ecn.ac.uk/datapolicy.asp
LTER Site Classification
Master
Related Resources on DEIMS-SDR
19 dataset(s) in total:
North Wyke: Ecosystem services variables from the UK Environmental Change Network (ECN)
North Wyke: UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) bat data: 1993-2015
North Wyke: UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) bird data: 1995-2015
North Wyke: UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) butterfly data: 1993-2015
North Wyke: UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) common breeding bird data: 1971-2007
North Wyke: UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) frog data: 1994-2015
North Wyke: UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) Precipitation Chemistry data: 1992-2015
There is EURO-CORDEX climate scenario data available for this site:
Projected Near Surface Specific Humidity ChangeRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Precipitation ChangeRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Sea Level Pressure ChangeRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Surface Downwelling Shortwave RadiationRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Near-Surface Wind SpeedRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Near-Surface Air TemperatureRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Daily Maximum Near-Surface Air TemperatureRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Daily Minimum Near-Surface Air TemperatureRCP26RCP45RCP85

You can also download the entire climate scenario dataset for this site from the EUDAT B2SHARE data store.