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Masante, D., Thomas, A.R.C. (2019). Simulated landscape metrics of configuration and Ecosystem Service provision across virtual landscapes, based within River Conwy . NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/67f9fe33-14dd-4676-9a6d-65fdbafe2a46
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Simulated landscape metrics of configuration and Ecosystem Service provision across virtual landscapes, based within River Conwy
The work was done by Dario Masante and Amy Thomas, with input from Laurence Jones, as part of work under the NERC Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BESS) project NERC Grant Ref: NE/K015508/1.
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- Spatial representation type
- Tabular (text)
- Spatial reference system
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Provenance & quality
In the first stage of the simulation, 100 simulated landscape configurations of woodland patches and improved grassland were created for the Hiraethlyn sub-catchment, allocating patches randomly up to the user input number of patches and area of coverage.
In the second phase of analysis, the landscape generation approach was repeated for 10 test areas. For this phase, landscape proportion and patch number were not pre-set, so the landscapes generated have random numbers of patches and fall along a continuum from 0-100% woodland, instead of being clustered around set landscape proportions.
The Land Utilisation Capability Indicator (LUCI) model was run for each landscape to provide a value of “area mitigated”. For both datasets, landscape metrics were calculated using SDMTools and SAGA terrain modules in R.
QA: Note that as patches start accumulating in the landscape, they merge and so the complexity of patch shapes inevitably increases. For dataset “Output_SummaryHiraethlyn”, since patch placement was random, some user set combinations were not achieved in the output, due to merging of patches, reducing the actual number of patches. To minimise merging, when allocation resulted in a lesser number of patches than seeded, the process was repeated until the seed number was reached, or the highest in one hundred trials. User input landscape proportion was given preference over achieving the number of patches. Merging may therefore result in a negative correlation between landscape proportion and number of patches across the dataset, and we must take this into account when analysing the outputs.
Data were output to Excel spreadsheets. Data was then exported to comma separated files for ingestion into the EIDC.
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Gwynedd
LL57 2UW
UNITED KINGDOM
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
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NERC Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
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- Topic categories
- environment
- INSPIRE themes
- Land Cover
Land Use - Keywords
- Ecosystem Service bundles , landscape configuration , LandscapeR , land use change , LUCI model , non-linear response
- Funding
- Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/K015508/1
- Last updated
- 08 February 2024 17:32
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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
CITE AS: Masante, D.; Thomas, A.R.C. (2019). Simulated landscape metrics of configuration and Ecosystem Service provision across virtual landscapes, based within River Conwy . NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/67f9fe33-14dd-4676-9a6d-65fdbafe2a46
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