Scotland's Fourth Land Use Strategy: supporting evidence pack

Footnotes

1 1 hectare is equal to 2.471 acres, or 10,000 square metres (m²)

2 Land Cover classes summarized as follows: Rough and Semi-natural Grassland (neutral grassland, acid grassland, fen marsh and swamp, heather, heather grassland, bog, supra-littoral sediment, saltmarsh), Woodland (broadleaved woodland, coniferous woodland), Improved Grassland, Arable and Horticulture, Other (inland rock, supra-littoral rock, littoral rock, littoral settlement), Urban and Suburban Areas (urban, suburban)

3 Woodland Type summarised as follows: Conifer and mixed mainly conifer (conifer, mixed mainly conifer), Broadleaf and mixed mainly broadleaf (broadleaved, mixed mainly broadleaved), Assumed Woodland, Young Trees, Other, including felled (coppice, coppice with standards, failed, felled, ground prep, low density, shrub, windblow)

4 Assumed woodland refers to areas expected to be woodland based on documented planning activity, even if current aerial and satellite imagery doesn’t yet show tree cover, or the area was missed in mapping.

5 Less favoured area is a designation applied across Europe in recognition of the different physical and socio-economic characteristics across regions.

6 Livestock density analysis by James Hutton Institute has not yet been updated to examine data from after 2022.

7 A livestock unit is a standard unit of measure used to compare the grazing impact and feed needs of different animals, useful in stocking density calculations. The reference unit (=1 LSU) is the grazing equivalent of one adult dairy cow producing 3000kg of milk annually. More information can be found here.

8 Other includes: biomass (dedicated), advanced conversion technologies, anaerobic digestion, landfill gas, EfW incineration, pumped storage hydroelectricity, battery, tidal stream

9 Area in sole occupation refers to the area of land for where there are sole occupiers of the land they farm, whether as owner-occupiers or tenants

10 Asterisks (*) above Cropland and Grassland indicate Cropland and Grassland relate to mineral soils only – emissions from these categories on organic soils are included in the Peatland category.