NCEA small streams monitoring programme - site ground-truthing exercise

The DEFRA Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) programme is aiming to develop representative ecosystem monitoring programmes across freshwater and terrestrial environments. One of these monitoring programmes will focus on small streams and headwaters. The network design process is statistical and uses maps of small streams as a starting point. However, maps do not convey the physical characteristics of individual streams, information which is necessary to understand whether one map scale is more appropri...