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Scheerwolde, Weerribben (first Life Box site)

3.71 ha · Reed land, wet grassland and woodland · NL · location shown to within 1.0 km

Small farm plot on peat in the Weerribben: reed land, wet grassland and young woodland. Planned site of the first field Life Box.

Verdict · 2026-Q4

declining

falling: productivity

Streams

Satellite: 814 clear observations, 2019-01-03 to 2026-10-21
Sound recorders: 1
Soil probes: 2
Visits: 0

Soil (SoilGrids 250 m, ISRIC, CC BY 4.0): Histosols, clay 23.9% · sand 23.8% · silt 52.2% · organic carbon 9.45% · pH 6

Last job: readings.recompute · done

JSON NDVI CSV Readings JSON Node dashboard Add a device

Seven readings

The verdict is the weakest of the seven. Unknown is a real answer: it says which stream still has to arrive.

Productivityfalling

capturing energy and building biomass (satellite greenness over the growing season)

confidence 100% · held 2 periods

single-place reading: the last growing season against the place's own previous three; regional weather (a dry spring, a wet summer) is not yet subtracted because the neighbour crowd is not built

Diversityunknown

differentiating into many forms (species heard per year)

confidence 0% · held 0 periods

no sound stream yet: install a recorder and deliver detections

Structureunknown

trophic levels and habitat complexity (acoustic indices)

confidence 0% · held 0 periods

no acoustic indices yet (NDSI/ADI); deliver indices or let the server compute them from detections

Renewalunknown

reproducing and recruiting (breeding-season song)

confidence 0% · held 0 periods

no sound stream yet: breeding-season song is the renewal signal

Cyclingunknown

closing water and nutrient loops (water drawn by roots from the top 40 cm on dry days, against the day's evaporation)

confidence 0% · held 0 periods

no soil stream yet: install the moisture and temperature probes

Resilienceunknown

recovering after shocks (drought years in the satellite archive)

confidence 20% · held 0 periods

fewer than two shocks (>15% below the place's median) in the archive; resilience cannot be read yet

Autonomyunknown

holding its state with little management (machine noise)

confidence 0% · held 0 periods

no machine-noise signal yet; anthrophony from indices or engine detections from the recorder

Satellite greenness (NDVI), Sentinel-2

Each dot is one clear scene, cloud-masked with the scene classification layer, averaged over the pixels inside the boundary. Shaded bands are growing seasons.

Growing season	Mean NDVI	Clear scenes
2019	0.720	92
2020	0.715	115
2021	0.752	63
2022	0.733	38
2023	0.749	44
2024	0.789	36
2025	0.699	52
2026	0.714	64

Carbon, inferred (v0.1, a range, not an issuance)

Net ecosystem carbon balance per year: productivity from satellite greenness, minus soil breathing (from a temperature climatology until a probe exists), minus harvest export for this land use. Every parameter carries a low and a high value; the range is what the evidence supports. Credits would be issued for the lower bound. Method · JSON

Year	Scenes	NPP t C/ha	Soil breathing t C/ha	Export t C/ha	Net t CO₂/ha (box)	Central
2019	145	4.6 to 9.1	3.0 to 5.6	1.2 to 4.1	-18.6 to 17.8	0.2
2020	162	4.9 to 9.5	3.0 to 5.6	1.2 to 4.3	-18.5 to 19.3	1.0
2021	120	4.7 to 9.1	3.0 to 5.6	1.2 to 4.1	-18.6 to 18.1	0.4
2022	81	4.7 to 9.2	3.0 to 5.6	1.2 to 4.2	-18.6 to 18.4	0.5
2023	68	5.0 to 9.8	3.0 to 5.6	1.2 to 4.4	-18.5 to 20.0	1.4
2024	59	5.1 to 10.0	3.0 to 5.6	1.3 to 4.5	-18.4 to 20.7	1.8
2025	89	4.7 to 9.2	3.0 to 5.6	1.2 to 4.2	-18.6 to 18.3	0.5

Devices

Node dashboard: soil, sound, battery and heartbeats over time.

Kind	Model	Position	Last seen
SOUND	Life node v1, BirdNET-Go on Raspberry Pi 4, INMP441	· 0.5 m	never
SOIL	DFRobot SEN0600	· 10 cm	never
SOIL	DFRobot SEN0600	· 30 cm	never