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Understanding the condition of natural capital ecosystems
The terrestrial and marine Natural Capital Ecosystem Assessment (tNCEA and mNCEA) are flagship programmes of Defra.
The tNCEA team were tasked with developing a proof of concept to demonstrate what is possible in terms of costing field survey data collection, while also considering scales of efficiency to optimise value from investment.