UK state bank considers lengthening disastrous IT program • The Register

The UK’s state-backed savings bank has set out options for finishing its disastrous platform transformation program, which include busting the current timeline. In its response to a Parliamentary watchdog report which branded the National Savings & Investments’ (NS&I) long-running digital overhaul a £3 billion “full-spectrum disaster,” the government said it would decide on the future…

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Tree community resource economics control soil food web multifunctionality

Study sites and sampling design We used a pan-European network of 64 mature, uneven-aged forest plots (30 × 30 m2) consisting of three-species mixture stands (34 plots) and corresponding monospecific stands (30 plots; Extended Data Table 1). These plots are part of the FunDivEUROPE (Functional Significance of Forest Biodiversity in Europe) exploratory platform59, and were established across European forests…

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