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Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) Product Brochure
The Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) Product Brochure provides an overview of some of the key product collections that the NCEA programme is delivering with... -
NCEA Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Limitations Statement, December 2025
Key information and data limitations for Analysis Ready Data (ARD) being published by Defra’s Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) programme in December 2025. Users... -
National Woodland Bat Survey - Example Dataset
Unvalidated automated bat species classifications derived from acoustic recordings made at a sample of three National Forest Inventory squares, surveyed as part of the National... -
NFI+ Soil Condition & Health
This dataset contains comprehensive soil chemical and physical indicators collected as part of the NFI+ (National Forest Inventory Plus) programme and the BioSoil forest soil... -
Woodland Water Quality
Water quality and biology results for 21 streams draining headwater catchments dominated by woodland cover. Water quality data mainly comprise concentrations of various chemical... -
ICP Forests Level II UK data
Data for variables measured every four weeks in 2022 and 2023 at the two 0.25 hectare ICP Forests Level II plots including: throughfall chemistry, rainfall chemistry, air... -
NFI Soil Fungi & Invertebrate Communities
Soil community data generated through eDNA metabarcoding (marker genes: ITS, 18S, COI) of soil samples collected within National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland plots across... -
NFI Soil Chemistry
Soil chemistry data of soil samples collected within National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland plots across England during the 2023/24 survey period. The dataset provides... -
NFI Canopy & Subcanopy Arthropod Communities
Canopy and subcanopy arthropod community data generated through DNA metabarcoding of samples collected using Lindgren (canopy) and Malaise (subcanopy) traps deployed within... -
ICP Forests Level II UK data - Air Quality
Data for air quality variables measured every four weeks in 2022 and 2023 at seven 0.25 hectare ICP Forests Level II plots, including Ozone, NH3 and NO2, measured by passive... -
NCEA Small Streams Network Analysis Ready Data
The NCEA is Defra's largest research and development (R&D) programme. It will produce a baseline of our natural assets by 2029; enabling a natural capital approach to policy... -
NCEA River Surveillance Network Analysis Ready Data
The NCEA is Defra's largest research and development (R&D) programme. It will produce a baseline of our natural assets by 2029; enabling a natural capital approach to policy... -
Wildscape Atlas for England and Wales
The Wildscape Atlas was a projected spin-off product from Prof. Alice Coleman’s Second Land Utilisation Survey of Britain (https://maps.nls.uk/series/second-land-utilisation-... -
Second Land Utilisation Survey of Britain
The late Professor Alice Coleman (1924-2023) directed the Second Land Utilisation Survey of Britain (2LUSB) between 1960 and 1973. This was developed from Prof Sir Dudley... -
Alice Coleman’s Scapes and Fringes
Scapes and Fringes are a spin-off from the Second Land Utilisation Survey of Britain (https://maps.nls.uk/series/second-land-utilisation-survey/), directed by Prof. Alice... -
Living England 2022-23
Living England is a multi-year project which delivers a broad habitat map for the whole of England, created using satellite imagery, field data records and other geospatial data... -
National Trees Outside Woodland Map
The National Trees Outside Woodland (TOW) V1 map is a vector product funded by DEFRA’s Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) programme produced under Forest Research’s... -
Young Trees Map England
The Young Trees map was funded by DEFRA through the Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) programme. The young trees mapping project developed a machine learning... -
Tree Species Map England
The England species map was funded by DEFRA’s Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) programme. The map was created using satellite remote sensing data (Sentinel-2) and... -
England Peat Map
The England Peat Map is a map of England's peaty soils. It models the extent, depth, and condition of our peat including vegetation and upland peat erosion & drainage...