Publication - Research and analysis

Measuring biodiversity: research into approaches

Published: 20 September 2023
From: Director of Environment and Forestry
Directorate: Environment and Forestry Directorate
Topic: Environment and climate change
ISBN: 9781835213582

This report considers methodologies for measuring biodiversity at site-level for use in Scotland.

Footnotes

1. Scotland's Environment: Ecosystem health indicators

2. Lammerant J. et al., Assessment of Biodiversity Measurement Approaches for Businesses and Financial Institutions, Update Report 4 on behalf of the EU Business @ Biodiversity Platform, December 2022

3. Miro interactive board

4. Padlet visual boards

5. Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures: Nature-Related Risk and Opportunity Management and Disclosure Framework

6. British Standards Institute: BS8632:2021 Natural Capital Accounting See also: YouTube: Introducing BS 8632 - Natural Capital Accounting for Organizations and YouTube: BS 8632:2021 Natural Capital Accounting for Organizations. Specification

7. Natural England: The Small Sites Metric

8. UK Habitat Classification (UK Hab)

9UKTAG (2004) UK Technical Advisory Group on the Water Framework Directive Guidance on Typology for Lakes for the UK (Draft).

10. European Environment Agency: EUNIS habitat classification

11. Defra. 2007. Hedgerow Survey Handbook: A Standard Procedure for Local Surveys in the UK. 2nd Addition. Defra, London.

12. Natural England. 2021. Priority Habitat Inventory (England).

13.JNCC. UK BAP Priority Habitats

14. EEA. 2019. EUNIS habitat type hierarchical view [online].

15. UK Lakes Portal - UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH)

16. MAGIC interactive map

17. Natural England. 2021b. Priority River Habitat - Headwater Areas [online].

18. Natural England. 2021c. Priority Habitat River Habitat – Rivers [online].

19. JNCC's Common Standards Monitoring guidance

20. The Freshwater Biological Association's Habitat Naturalness Assessment

21. Natural England. 2021. Summary of changes from Biodiversity Metric 2.0 to version 3.0, Natural England Joint Publication JP039.

22. Scottish Government's National Planning Framework 4

23. Scottish Forestry's Native Woodland Survey of Scotland (NWSS)

24. Scottish Government's Caledonian Pinewood Inventory

25. Space Intelligence's SLAM-MAP of Scotland is a comprehensive map of Scotland's terrestrial habitats. This map has been derived using artificial intelligence to categories satellite data into habitats (EUNIS level 2 at a spatial resolution of 20m ²).

26. NatureScot: Scottish Biodiversity List

27. Scotland's Environment Map portal

28. SEPA Water Classification Hub map portal

29. UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Lake Portal

30. JNCC list of UK BAP Priority habitats

31. See for example: Office for National Statistics map of UK Local Authority Districts, Counties and Unitary Authorities

32. Scottish Forestry's Open Data portal

33. Available via Scottish Forestry's Open Data portal

34. Buglife's B-Lines

35. SEPA's Water Environment Hub

36. Agri-Environment Climate Scheme Farm Environment Table Template, 2023

37. Fen/marsh/swamp, heathland, semi-natural woodland, semi-natural grassland