Task 3: Ecosystem quality assessments and trends in development of HNV farmland and forests

Task Overview

This task focuses on the development and testing of quality assessments for HNV farmland and forests.
2 October 2022

Task Start

Location: GMIT, UCD

Current Status

In Progress

Task Due Date

Objectives

• Review the methodologies for biodiversity and ecosystem quality assessment of HNV farmland and forest areas
• Develop and field test methodologies for the ecosystem quality and quantity assessments of HNV farmland and forest areas
• Develop a costed national monitoring programme for HNV farmland and forestry
• Assess the feasibility of incorporation of methodologies into existing national monitoring/ inventory programmes

Outcomes

• Field procedures and methodology for the assessing the biodiversity and ecosystem quality of HNV farmland and forest areas
• An evaluation of the incorporation of costed monitoring programme into existing national surveys

2021

A landscape classification map of Ireland and its potential use in national land use monitoring

This study presents a novel landscape classification map of the Republic of Ireland and is the first to identify broad landscape classes by incorporating physiographic and land cover data.
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This project is funded by the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine Research Stimulus Fund

  • High Nature Value Farmland and Forests, GMIT