Development of a combined marine and terrestrial biodiversity indicator: research

A commissioned research report on development of a new single high level biodiversity indicator covering marine and terrestrial (including freshwater) habitats to measure trends and replace the existing biodiversity indicator in the National Performance Framework.


10. Acknowledgements

179. We would like to thank the other members of the project team - Prof. David Elston, Prof. Jeremy Wilson, and Prof. Richard Gregory - for their input to this report and the development of this proposal more widely. John Landrock, Scottish Government Environment Statistics, provided clear guidance on the requirements of this contract, and support throughout our work programme. We received valuable input from the members of the Scottish Government's Research Advisory Group for this project, all the experts who attended the three workshops conducted, and the members of the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy Science Support Group who commented on our proposal.

180. Finally, we wish to thank all those helped with the provision of data that has been utilised within the draft indicator.

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