Understanding recent land-use change in Snowdonia to plan a sustainable future for uplands: integrating palaeoecology and conservation practice

了解斯诺登尼亚最近的土地利用变化，规划高地的可持续未来：整合古生态学和保护实践

基本信息

批准号：
2572599
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
University of Southampton
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2572599
关键词：
Understanding recent land use change

项目摘要

The UK's sustainable future rests on a holistic appraisal of rural landscape function/land use and the state of critical ecosystem services [1]. In upland Britain, important concerns include moving towards net-zero carbon targets for land-use, increasing the forest estate, and maintaining or enhancing biodiversity while supporting upland farming. Planning is better informed by knowledge of recent change in the upland system related to the large-scale social and economic transformations of the 20th Century. This project focuses on Snowdonia, a mountainous region of North Wales that includes the extensive Snowdonia National Park. Here, a range of human impacts (for example, deforestation, moor burning, afforestation, fluctuating levels of grazing pressure, and pasture improvement) have affected the landscape-scale mosaic of vegetation cover and inputs and outputs of carbon, nutrients and pollutants to upland waters and downstream locations. The link between land use/farming/forestry practices of the past ca 150 yr and carbon storage potential in peat/quality of inland waters can be demonstrated using modern palaeoecological techniques applied to peat and lake sedimentary records. The work would contribute to the development of upland land-management strategy in partnership with Natural Resources Wales (Bangor).

英国的可持续未来取决于对农村景观功能/土地利用和关键生态系统服务状态的整体评估[1]。在高地英国，重要的担忧包括朝着零净碳目标迈出土地利用，增加森林庄园，并在支持高地农业的同时维持或增强生物多样性。了解与20世纪大规模的社会和经济转型有关的高地系统变化的知识更好地为计划提供了信息。该项目的重点是斯诺登尼亚（Snowdonia），斯诺登尼亚（Snowdonia）是北威尔士的山区，其中包括广泛的斯诺登尼亚国家公园。在这里，一系列人类的影响（例如，森林砍伐，淹没，造林，放牧压力的波动和改善）影响了植被覆盖的景观规模的镶嵌，以及碳，纳入碳的投入和输出，纳入碳，养分和污染物对高地沃特斯和下游位置。可以使用现代的古生物学技术来证明过去CA 150年的土地使用/农业/林业实践与内陆水域泥炭/质量的碳储存潜力之间的联系。这项工作将与威尔士自然资源（Bangor）合作有助于制定高地土地管理战略。