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Intensive long term monitoring of forest ecosystems - trends

The main objective of the intensive forest monitoring network is to look at change and causes of change in forest ecosystems over a long time scale. Some of the emerging trends are outlined below for a range of different variables.

• Forest soil dynamics
• Ground vegetation community structure and composition
• Tree crown condition
• Tree growth
• Tree nutrition

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  Looking into a litter collector
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  Monitoring equipment at the Alice Holt Intensive Forest Monitoring plot