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Ecosystem Services and Gaelic: a Scoping Exercise.

Published online: 10 Oct 2022

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Maclean, R.

Content type: Reports

This report is a scoping exercise to ascertain the potential for identifying: (1) and highlighting how an understanding of Scotland's Gaelic language ...

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UKCEH, Countryside Survey & ERAMMP, Laura Bentley.

Published online: 07 Dec 2024

Published by: UK, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Content type: Conference slides

This presentation discusses the ERAMMP (Environmental and Rural Agricultural Monitoring and Management Programme) and the Countryside Survey, which pr...

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Discovering how the public interact with, respond to, and talk about British woodlands.

Published online: 26 Sep 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Austen, G. E. & Dallimer Martin & Irvine, K. N. & Maund, P. R. & Fish, R. D. & Davies, Z. G.

Content type: Blog

The aim of this study is to find out if there were particular ways the public think and speak about biodiversity. This might be in response to how a s...

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Promoting conservation can be fun through video games like Animal Crossing.

Published online: 30 Sep 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Fisher, J. & Yoh, N. & Kubo, T. & Rundle, D.

Content type: Blog

This paper explores how features of the popular Nintendo game Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) can be used for pro-conservation messaging. The aut...

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The efficacy and ecological impacts of herbicide and cutting regimes on the submerged plant communities of four British rivers. II. A multivariate analysis of the effects of management regimes on macrophyte communities.

Published online: 08 Dec 1990

Authors: Fox, A. M. & Murphy, K. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Macrophyte abundance scores derived from percentage frequencies from permanent transects in four rivers were subjected to DECORANA and TWINSPAN multiv...

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A vision for the future conservation evidence landscape.

Published online: 19 May 2025

Authors: O'Connell, M. J. & White, R. L. & Haysom, K. A. & Seo, M. & Dooner, P. & Macadam, C. & Plowman, A. & Bulman, C. R. & Hayns, S. & Nason, M. & Groves, L. & Orr, H. G. & Meakin, K. & Dagley, J. & Stringer, A. & Smart, A. & Hynes, J. & Stone, D. & Hails, R. S. & Webb, J. & Hutchinson, N. & Higgins, S. & Wilson, J. D. & Burns, F. & Robinson, S. L. & Doar, N. & Smith, R. K. & Sutherland, W. J. & Rogers, L. & Jackson, H. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Evidence-based conservation has made some major steps forward in the last two decades. However, the 'landscape' in which evidence is generated, funded...

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Who guides the shepherd? Competition or cooperation? Nature and culture production with sheep flocks.

Published online: 05 Oct 2016

Authors: Schrijver, R. A. M.

Content type: Bulletin

A study was carried out in the Netherlands to assess the financial situation of shepherds looking after flocks, mainly on heathlands. A total of 47 bu...

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NatureScot Research Report 1309 - Understanding the Indirect Drivers of Biodiversity Loss in Scotland.

Published online: 21 Nov 2024

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Pakeman, R. J. & Eastwood, A. & Duckett, D. & Waylen, K. A. & Hopkins, J. & Bailey, D. M.

Content type: Reports

This report explores the indirect drivers of biodiversity loss in Scotland, emphasizing the societal values and behaviors that underpin the direct dri...

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NatureScot Research Report 1359 - Natural capital assessments of urban nature-based solutions in Scotland.

Published online: 24 Nov 2024

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Pacheco, M. S.

Content type: Reports

This report explores the application of Natural Capital Assessments (NCA) tools in urban nature-based solutions (NbS) projects in Scotland, aiming to ...

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Valuing the cultural services from urban blue-space ecosystems in Japanese megacities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Published online: 23 Nov 2022

Authors: Jo, T. & Sato, M. & Minamoto, T. & Ushimaru, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The COVID-19 pandemic is an outstanding global threat for both human health and well-being. Under the pandemic, green spaces are known to mitigate the...

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