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Land Cover
A range of resources from various sources depicting land cover in Scotland -
Native Woodland Model (2004)
The Potential for Native Woodland in Upland Scotland was created by the Macaulay Institute and Scottish Natural Heritage in 2004. It was developed to assist in the planning of... -
Soils of Scotland (partial cover)
A series of data sets from the James Hutton Institute that cover the more intensively farmed parts of Scotland. These data are typically at a larger scale (more detailed) than... -
Land Capability Maps
Land capability maps use soil data along with information on other properties, such as climate or landscape, to classify the land for a specific purpose such as the Land... -
Thematic Soil Maps
Thematic soil maps show the distribution of a specific soil property or theme, such as topsoil organic carbon content or soil texture. -
Soil profile depth, bulk density and carbon stock of Scotland
The spatial distribution of soil organic carbon is an important factor in land management decision making, climate change mitigation and landscape planning. Here three groups of... -
Soil Risk Maps (partial cover)
The Risk maps show a series of simple indicators of the role of soils in determining risks to water quality. These indicators include the risk of soil erosion, leaching from... -
National Soils of Scotland
James Hutton Institute data sets contributing or derived from the National Soils of Scotland database. Soil maps display the distribution of different soil types across the land... -
AECS Spatial Targeting - Beetle Banks
A mapping layer depicting species richness per 10 km x 10 km grid cell of Scottish Biodiversity List species identified as benefiting from the provision of Beetle Banks in the... -
Vegetation survey of Chapel Mires in Lunan catchment, Scotland
The map and associated data are outputs from a project to explore the potential for innovative management of water levels and flows in the Lunan Water, an agricultural catchment... -
Species Richness
Management or Restoration of Hedgerows is a management option available under the Agro-Environment Climate Scheme (AECS) of the Scottish Rural Development Plan (SRDP). The... -
Spatial Datasets for Glensaugh Research Farm
Glensaugh is one of The James Hutton Institute research farms. It is in the Grampian foothills to the east of the B974 Fettercairn to Banchory road about 7 km north of... -
Scotland's Epiphyte Diversity, Climate Change Risk
Scotland has international conservation responsibility towards 'cryptogamic' bryophytes and lichens, especially epiphytic species (growing on trees) that characterise its... -
Ecosystem services supply - Woodlands
Forests are important part of Scotland’s natural heritage and can provide a number of benefits to people, such as natural flood management. The type of benefits a forest... -
Cultural Heritage: Entertainment
This data set provides information on references in cultural media to landscape and local setting. It is based on work undertaken by AECOM following a commision by SNH to map... -
Cultural Heritage: Class Indicator
Cultural Heritage CES class Indicator created from the sub-indicators Time Depth and Historic Richness by landscape character units (LCA) The cultural heritage indicator is... -
Biodiversity
This dataset includes resources displaying proxies of biodiversity Please note that at present this is only available as a web mapping service -
Available Water Capacity
The available water capacity map is based on the 1:250 000 soil map and calculated using data from the Scottish Soils Knowledge and Information Base (SSKIB). The available water... -
Adaptive co-management of the Scottish uplands - the role of social networks
The research brief presents findings of the study on how land managers adapt their land management practices to changing policy objectives. The study area was The Cairngorms... -
A model for cost-effectiveness analysis of field scale sediment-bound phospho...
Model for determining cost-effectiveness of farm measures for mitigating diffuse pollution from sediment bound phosphorus runoff from arable farmland. The measure options from...
