ECRR Forum
Wednesday May 13, 2009
Venue: SNH Battleby Centre, near Perth
UPDATE: please see below for event report.
The purpose of this one-day forum was to review current knowledge on the status and values of Scotland’s rural biodiversity and to explore successes and failures in achieving biodiversity goals.
The forum was organised by ECRR in association with the Aberdeen Research Consortium and with the support of the Scottish Biodiversity Forum and Scottish Natural Heritage. More than 100 participants attended.
A welcome by Martin Price of UHI was followed by presentations from 12 speakers about a broad spectrum of issues and the challenges that researchers face. Some 20 poster presentations were also made.
Further information
Please see the archived event page at the website of Perth College UHI.
Event report
Ten of 12 slide presentations are available here, as well as a summary of the presentations and abstracts of posters.
Summary of presentations and discussions (PDF, 83KB)
scrr.ac.uk/downloads/biod_speaker_abstracts.pdf
Abstracts of poster presentations (PDF, 89KB)
scrr.ac.uk/downloads/biod_poster_abstracts.pdf
Scotland’s changing rural biodiversity: context
Greg Mudge, SNH (PDF, 154 KB)
scrr.ac.uk/downloads/mudge_snh.pdf
Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Roy Haines-Young and Marion Potschin, University of Nottingham (PDF, 1.1 MB)
scrr.ac.uk/downloads/hainesyoung_potschin.pdf
Biodiversity awareness and involvement in Scotland
Rachel Bishop and Liz Murphy, Progressive Parnership Ltd (PDF, 438 KB)
scrr.ac.uk/downloads/bishop_murphy_pp.pdf
Conservation in protected areas and the wider countryside
Ed Mackey, SNH (PDF, 627 KB)
scrr.ac.uk/downloads/mackey_snh.pdf
Managing conflicting goals in the uplands: consequences for biodiversity
Steve Albon, Macaulay Institute and Steve Redpath, University of Aberdeen (PDF, 1.1 MB)
scrr.ac.uk/downloads/albon_redpath.pdf
Farmland biodiversity: where do we go from here?
Davy McCracken, SAC (PDF, 1.8MB)
scrr.ac.uk/downloads/mccracken_sac.pdf
Integrating biodiversity goals in the SRDP
Jo O’Hara, Scottish Government (PDF, 122 KB)
scrr.ac.uk/downloads/ohara_sg.pdf
Integrating biodiversity objectives in planning
Michael Oxford, Association of Local Government Ecologists (PDF, 905KB)
scrr.ac.uk/downloads/oxford_alge.pdf
Habitat networks: linking across scales and land uses
Duncan Ray, Forest Research (PDF, 3.1 MB)
scrr.ac.uk/downloads/ray_fr.pdf
Collaborative approaches to delivering biodiversity objectives: keeping it simple
John Hambrey, Hambrey Consulting (PDF, 805 KB)
scrr.ac.uk/downloads/hambrey.pdf
Other speakers were:
Paul Walton, RSPB – Management for biodiversity by NGOs
Allan Watt, CEH – Implications for policy and action: 2010 and beyond