32 datasets found

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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...
  • Glentrool Storymap

    Located in the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere, Glentrool was the region’s first Biosphere Community. Cultural ecosystem services and sense of place were...
  • 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...
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