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1. Farmer intentional pathways for net zero carbon: Exploring the lock-in effects of forestry and renewables

Author:
A.P. Barnes; J. McMillan; L.-A. Sutherland; J. Hopkins; S.G. Thomson
Source:
Land use policy 2022 v.112 pp. 105861
ISSN:
0264-8377
Subject:
carbon; climate; farmers; farms; food production; forestry; greenhouse gases; land policy; probit analysis; renewable energy sources; risk; surveys; Scotland
Abstract:
... Climate smart farming requires food production to sit alongside practices which sequester greenhouse gas emissions. Given the requirement to meet net zero emissions by the middle of the century, agricultural policies are now seeking to embed climate smart approaches within future support schemes. Path dependency, the influence of past choices on decision making, has been found to constrain future ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105861

2. Quantifying the land-based opportunity carbon costs of onshore wind farms

Author:
Fabrizio Albanito; Sam Roberts; Anita Shepherd; Astley Hastings
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2022 v.363 pp. 132480
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
arable soils; basins; carbon; carbon dioxide; coal; crop production; cropland; ecosystems; electricity; electricity generation; emissions factor; forestry; land use change; markets; opportunity costs; pastures; peat; peatlands; wind; wind power; Scotland
Abstract:
... The development of onshore wind energy impacts the land where it is constructed, together with competition for natural resources between the energy and land sector. The loss of terrestrial carbon stocks and ecosystem services from land use change to wind farms can be interpreted as the opportunity cost that landowners give up by choosing to construct wind farms on their land. Here, we spatially qu ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.132480

3. Taming the massive genome of Scots pine with PiSy50k, a new genotyping array for conifer research

Author:
Chedly Kastally; Alina K. Niskanen; Annika Perry; Sonja T. Kujala; Komlan Avia; Sandra Cervantes; Matti Haapanen; Robert Kesälahti; Timo A. Kumpula; Tiina M. Mattila; Dario I. Ojeda; Jaakko S. Tyrmi; Witold Wachowiak; Stephen Cavers; Katri Kärkkäinen; Outi Savolainen; Tanja Pyhäjärvi
Source:
plant journal 2022 v.109 no.5 pp. 1337-1350
ISSN:
0960-7412
Subject:
Pinus sylvestris; conifers; forestry; gene frequency; genotyping; marker-assisted selection; single nucleotide polymorphism; single nucleotide polymorphism arrays; trees; Eurasia; Finland; Scotland
Abstract:
... Pinus sylvestris (Scots pine) is the most widespread coniferous tree in the boreal forests of Eurasia, with major economic and ecological importance. However, its large and repetitive genome presents a challenge for conducting genome‐wide analyses such as association studies, genetic mapping and genomic selection. We present a new 50K single‐nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping array for Scots ...
DOI:
10.1111/tpj.15628

4. Assessing the reliability of peatland GPP measurements by remote sensing: From plot to landscape scale

Author:
Kirsten J. Lees; Myroslava Khomik; Tristan Quaife; Joanna M. Clark; Tim Hill; Daniela Klein; Jonathan Ritson; Rebekka R.E. Artz
Source:
Science of the total environment 2021 v.766 pp. 142613
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
calibration; carbon; carbon dioxide; conifers; ecosystems; eddy covariance; environment; factor analysis; forestry; landscapes; microrelief; models; peatlands; photosynthesis; remote sensing; spectral analysis; spectrometers; surface temperature; vegetation; water content; Scotland
Abstract:
... Estimates of peatland carbon fluxes based on remote sensing data are a useful addition to monitoring methods in these remote and precious ecosystems, but there are questions as to whether large-scale estimates are reliable given the small-scale heterogeneity of many peatlands. Our objective was to consider the reliability of models based on Earth Observations for estimating ecosystem photosynthesi ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142613

5. Seasonal patterns of greenhouse gas emissions from a forest‐to‐bog restored site in northern Scotland: Influence of microtopography and vegetation on carbon dioxide and methane dynamics

Author:
Valeria Mazzola; Mike P. Perks; Jo Smith; Jagadeesh Yeluripati; Georgios Xenakis
Source:
European journal of soil science 2021 v.72 no.3 pp. 1332-1353
ISSN:
1351-0754
Subject:
carbon; carbon dioxide; carbon sinks; drainage; forestry; gas exchange; greenhouse gas emissions; greenhouse gases; greenhouses; methane; microrelief; oxidation; peat; peatlands; soil water; temperature; vegetation types; Scotland
Abstract:
... Northern peatlands play an important role in the regulation of the atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) balance, functioning as a net carbon sink with low rates of organic decomposition. However, perturbations such as drainage increase peat oxidation, which may lead to enhanced gaseous release of carbon. For this reason, the number of restoration projects that aim to rewet blanket bogs has increased i ...
DOI:
10.1111/ejss.13050

6. Sustainable food production in a temperate climate – a case study analysis of the nutritional yield in a peri-urban food forest

Author:
Josefine Lærke Skrøder Nytofte; Christian Bugge Henriksen
Source:
Urban forestry & urban greening 2019 v.45 pp. 126326
ISSN:
1618-8667
Subject:
carbohydrates; case studies; crops; diet; energy; females; food availability; food production; food security; forestry; forests; gardens; legumes; males; malnutrition; nut trees; nutrient databanks; species diversity; sustainable agriculture; temperate zones; Scotland
Abstract:
... Food forestry is an emerging multifunctional perennial polyculture food production system that has the potential to contribute to food security and mitigate malnutrition in urban and peri-urban areas by addressing the three main components of food security: Availability, access and utilisation. Despite this potential to increase food security only very few studies have estimated the food productio ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ufug.2019.04.009

7. An evaluation of Scottish woodland grant schemes using site suitability modelling

Author:
Haydn J.D. Thomas; James S. Paterson; Marc J. Metzger; Louise Sing
Source:
Land use policy 2019 v.80 pp. 309-317
ISSN:
0264-8377
Subject:
climate change; climatic factors; decision making; ecosystems; forestry; forests; interviews; land policy; models; planning; stakeholders; woodlands; Scotland
Abstract:
... Woodland expansion is a key component of Scottish land use policy, with targets to increase woodland cover from 18% towards 25% of land area by 2050. However, to date there has been little assessment of whether forestry policy is achieving its objectives. Here, we present an evaluation of woodland grant schemes based on site suitability modelling for the Lochaber Forest District in northwest Scotl ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.03.030

8. A framework for characterizing business models applied by forestry service contractors

Author:
Filip Benjaminsson; Thomas Kronholm; Emanuel Erlandsson
Source:
Scandinavian journal of forest research 2019 v.34 no.8 pp. 779-788
ISSN:
1651-1891
Subject:
econometric models; forestry; forests; markets; research; Finland; Ireland; Scotland; Sweden
Abstract:
... Forestry service contractors’ performance have been found related to how they organize their business. For benchmarking purposes, it is thus of vital importance to have a tool that can capture the relevant characteristics of a firm’s business model and structure the information in a useful way. The Business Model Canvas (BMC) is a well-established tool that has frequently been used to describe bus ...
DOI:
10.1080/02827581.2019.1623304

9. Understanding the integration of ecosystem services and natural capital in Scottish policy

Author:
Clément Claret; Marc J. Metzger; Marianne Kettunen; Patrick ten Brink
Source:
Environmental science & policy 2018 v.88 pp. 32-38
ISSN:
1462-9011
Subject:
European Union; air; bioenergy; climate change; cognition; decision making; ecosystem services; ecosystems; environmental science; fisheries; forestry; humans; issues and policy; land use; models; natural capital; natural resources conservation; rural development; soil; Scotland
Abstract:
... Despite the growing body of evidence highlighting how human activity both depends on and keeps deteriorating natural resources, traditional development models have failed to bring about conservation solutions to this contradiction. The twin concepts of ecosystem services and natural capital (ES/NC) have been coined to bridge this cognitive gap, by providing a framework to make the benefits that hu ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.envsci.2018.05.019

10. Adaptation to Climate Change in Forestry: A Perspective on Forest Ownership and Adaptation Responses

Author:
Elias Andersson; E. Carina H. Keskitalo; Anna Lawrence
Source:
Forests 2017 v.8 no.12 pp. -
ISSN:
1999-4907
Subject:
climate change; conifers; forest industries; forest ownership; forestry; issues and policy; plantations; politics; traditions; Scotland; Sweden
Abstract:
... Adaptation to climate change has often been discussed from the perspectives of social vulnerability and community vulnerability, recognising that characteristics at local level will influence the particular adaptations undertaken. However, the extent to which national-level systemic factors influence and shape measures defined as adaptations has seldom been recognised. Focusing on adaptation to cl ...
DOI:
10.3390/f8120493

11. Exploring factors affecting on-farm renewable energy adoption in Scotland using large-scale microdata

Author:
Jiaqi Ge; Lee-Ann Sutherland; J. Gary Polhill; Keith Matthews; Dave Miller; Douglas Wardell-Johnson
Source:
Energy Policy 2017 v.107 pp. 548-560
ISSN:
0301-4215
Subject:
agricultural land; bioenergy; biomass; data collection; demographic statistics; energy; energy policy; farms; forestry; geographical distribution; geophysics; surveys; tourism; wind; Scotland
Abstract:
... This paper uses large-scale micro data to identify key factors affecting the decision to adopt renewable energy generation (wind, solar and biomass) on farms in Scotland. We construct an integrated dataset that includes the compulsory agricultural census and farm structural survey that cover almost all farms in Scotland. In addition to farm owner demographics and farm business structures, we also ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.enpol.2017.05.025

12. Cross-sectoral impacts of climate and socio-economic change in Scotland: implications for adaptation policy

Author:
Ian P. Holman; Paula A. Harrison; Marc J. Metzger
Source:
Regional environmental change 2016 v.16 no.1 pp. 97-109
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
biodiversity; climate; forestry; forests; imports; irrigation; issues and policy; land use; models; profitability; society; socioeconomics; stakeholders; uncertainty; Scotland
Abstract:
... Understanding the importance of cross-sectoral implications of climate and socio-economic change in Scotland is essential for adaptation policy. This study explored the direct and indirect sectoral impacts of future change using the CLIMSAVE Integrated Assessment Platform. There is great spatial diversity in projected impacts across Scotland, and increasing uncertainty in the direction of change o ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-014-0679-8

13. Assessing the geographic origin of the invasive grey squirrel using DNA sequencing: Implications for management strategies

Author:
Claire D. Stevenson-Holt; William Sinclair
Source:
Global ecology and conservation 2015 v.3 pp. 20-27
ISSN:
2351-9894
Subject:
Sciurus carolinensis; biodiversity; forestry; genes; haplotypes; invasive species; landscapes; mountains; nucleotide sequences; phylogeography; population growth; provenance; squirrels; wildlife; England; Italy; Scotland
Abstract:
... The invasive grey squirrel Sciurus carolinensis has become a major pest species causing negative effects to forestry and biodiversity. This study aims to assess the origin of grey squirrel within Cumbria using phylogeographic analysis to aid in management and control. The work reported analysed mitochondrial DNA sequences in the D-Loop gene of 73 grey squirrel individuals from multiple locations i ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.gecco.2014.11.005

14. Building Resilience into Sitka Spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) Forests in Scotland in Response to the Threat of Climate Change

Author:
Andrew D. Cameron
Source:
Forests 2015 v.6 no.2 pp. 398-415
ISSN:
1999-4907
Subject:
Abies grandis; Picea sitchensis; Pseudotsuga menziesii; Tsuga heterophylla; climate; climate change; cutting; even-aged stands; financial economics; forestry; forests; planting; risk; uncertainty; North America; Scotland
Abstract:
... It is expected that a warming climate will have an impact on the future productivity of European spruce forests. In Scotland, Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) dominates the commercial forestry sector and there is growing pressure to develop alternative management strategies to limit potential economic losses through climate change. This review considers management options to increase ...
DOI:
10.3390/f6020398

15. Community based forest enterprises in Britain: Two organising typologies

Author:
Bianca Ambrose-Oji; Anna Lawrence; Amy Stewart
Source:
Forest policy and economics 2015 v.58 pp. 65-74
ISSN:
1389-9341
Subject:
business enterprises; business management; capital; case studies; community service; forest industries; forest policy; forestry; governance; income; models; woodlands; England; Scotland; Wales
Abstract:
... The research investigates an area of contemporary interest in British forest policy: community-based and social enterprises. A systematic framework was used to collect and organise qualitative and quantitative evidence from thirty three case studies across Wales, Scotland and England. Two descriptive typologies emerged from an iterative analysis of the case study data: one identifies five differen ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.forpol.2014.11.005

16. Effects of temperature, rainfall and conifer felling practices on the surface water chemistry of northern peatlands

Author:
François L. L. Muller; Kuei-Chen Chang; Chon-Lin Lee; Stephen J. Chapman
Source:
Biogeochemistry 2015 v.126 no.3 pp. 343-362
ISSN:
0168-2563
Subject:
manganese; carbon sequestration; seasonal variation; dissolved organic carbon; phosphorus; groundwater; felling; ultrafiltration; iron; peatlands; forestry; sodium; ecosystems; molecular weight; conifers; runoff; surface water; mineralization; stream flow; water quality; calcium; leaching; drainage channels; potassium; soil water; temperature; hydrochemistry; silicon; peat soils; magnesium; streams; rain; aluminum; water table; Scotland
Abstract:
... Afforested peatlands account for about 25 % of human-affected peatlands worldwide. In some regions, particularly the British Isles, forest-to-bog conversions are now underway in the hope of increasing carbon storage and restoring original ecosystem functions. In this study, the effects on surface water quality of forest-to-bog restoration in the Flow Country peatlands of northern Scotland were mon ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10533-015-0162-8

17. Europe on its way into a Biobased economy – perspectives for plant and agro-Reseach

Author:
C. Patermann
Source:
Journal of plant pathology 2015 v.97 no.4(S) pp. S9
ISSN:
1125-4653
Subject:
foods; carbon; feedstocks; insects; fisheries; health services; aquaculture; animals; food quality; forestry; climate; energy industry; energy; fossils; models; building construction; plants (botany); value-added products; emissions; toxicity; biomass; bioeconomics; wastes; microorganisms; cosmetics; Norway; United States; Sweden; Finland; Germany; France; Netherlands; Italy; Belgium; Ireland; Denmark; Russia; Austria; Scotland; Spain
Abstract:
... New knowledge about plants, animals, microorganisms and insects during the last decades has prompted deliberations, primarily from Europe and here by the European Commission, to use systematically and in a systemic way this new knowledge as the basis of a new economic concept, the Bioeconomy. Having originally been a RTD concept, the so-called Knowledge-Based Bioeconomy or KBBE, the Bioeconomy is ...
DOI:
10.4454/JPP.V97I4SUP.002

18. Issues and pressures facing the future of soil carbon stocks with particular emphasis on Scottish soils

Author:
S. BUCKINGHAM; R. M. REES; C. A. WATSON
Source:
Journal of agricultural science 2014 v.152 no.5 pp. 699-715
ISSN:
1469-5146
Subject:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; carbon dioxide; carbon sinks; climate change; economic productivity; fertilizer application; forestry; greenhouse gas emissions; land use change; nitrogen; organic soils; peat; pollution; soil erosion; soil organic carbon; Scotland
Abstract:
... Soil organic carbon (C) plays a critical role in supporting the productive capacity of soils and their ability to provide a wide range of ecologically important functions including the storage of atmospherically derived carbon dioxide (CO₂). The present paper collates available information on Scottish soil C stocks and C losses and reviews the potential pressures on terrestrial C, which may threat ...
DOI:
10.1017/S0021859613000300

19. Modelling the long-term response of stream water chemistry to forestry in Galloway, Southwest Scotland

Author:
R.C. Helliwell; J. Aherne; T.R. Nisbet; G. MacDougall; S. Broadmeadow; J. Sample; L. Jackson-Blake; R. Doughty
Source:
Ecological indicators 2014 v.37 pp. 396-411
ISSN:
1470-160X
Subject:
acidification; aquatic invertebrates; cations; chemical bases; conifers; emissions; fish; forestry; forests; heathlands; hydrogeochemistry; models; neutralization; planting; pollutants; soil; streams; sulfates; sulfur dioxide; surface water; surveys; uncertainty; watersheds; Scotland
Abstract:
... The role of forestry in acidification of soils and surface waters under historic and contemporary acidic deposition was assessed using a process-based soil hydrogeochemical model incorporating Bayesian calibration and uncertainty propagation. The five study sites were acid impacted headwater catchments in the Galloway region of southwest Scotland, with between 0 and 65% forest cover. A ‘no forestr ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.01.031

20. Private landowners’ approaches to planting and managing forests in the UK: What's the evidence?

Author:
Anna Lawrence; Norman Dandy
Source:
Land use policy 2014 v.36 pp. 351-360
ISSN:
0264-8377
Subject:
attitudes and opinions; databases; equations; farming systems; forest ownership; forest policy; forestry; forests; grants; land use; landowners; landscapes; managers; planting; professionals; public policy; social networks; statistics; sustainable forestry; woodlands; England; Scotland; Wales
Abstract:
... Woodland expansion and sustainable forest management are key features of forest policy in the UK. Because a large majority of land and forests is owned privately, these policies need the involvement of private landowners. Studies of owners’ attitudes and decisions in the UK are at a disadvantage as there is no complete database of land or forest ownership. This paper is based on a Rapid Evidence A ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.09.002