Current Projects

At the national scale:

• Creation of land use scenarios of woodland expansion for the whole of Scotland. The scenarios simulate land use change at field scale resolution on multiple time steps. Evaluating climate and socio-economic change through land use scenarios.

At the catchment scale:

• Creation of land use scenarios in the Dee catchment considering direct and indirect effects of climate change (Gimona et al, 2009).
• Statistical analyses of the above scenarios on ecosystem services, i.e. forestry connectivity, carbon sequestration.
• Assessing links between soil erosion and land use patterns in the Lunan catchment (Baggaley et al, 2009).

At the group of farmers scale:

• Creation of cropping systems scenarios for groups of farmers, and assessment of the room for manoeuvring of farmers on species habitats enhancements (Joannon et al, 2009).
• Simulation of crop allocation scenarios at the group of farmers scale, based on individual vs. generic farmer decision rules (Schaller et al, 2010).

Developments:

• Embedding of LandSFACTS within the RECORD platform, a platform for creating innovative cropping systems and analysing their environmental implications.