Multi-tier archetypes to characterise British landscapes, farmland and farming practices

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• Last updated: 29 June 2024
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Summary

This dataset consists of landscape and agricultural management archetypes (1 km resolution) at three levels, defined by different opportunities for adaptation. Tier 1 archetypes quantify broad differences in soil, land cover and population across Great Britain, which cannot be readily influenced by the actions of land managers; Tier 2 archetypes capture more nuanced variations within farmland-dominated landscapes of Great Britain, over which land managers may have some degree of influence. Tier 3 archetypes are built at national levels for England and Wales and focus on socioeconomic and agro-ecological characteristics within farmland-dominated landscapes, characterising differences in farm management. The unavailability of several input variables for agricultural management prevented the generation of Tier 3 archetypes for Scotland. The archetypes were derived by data-driven machine learning. The three tiers of archetypes were analysed separately and not as a nested structure (i.e. a single Tier 3 archetype can occur in more than one Tier 2 archetype), predominantly to ensure that archetype definitions were easily interpreted across tiers. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/3b44375a-cbe6-468c-9395-41471054d0f3

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2024-06-14
• Access contraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Goodwin, C.E.D., Bütikofer, L., Hatfield, J.H., Richter, G.M., Redhead, J.W. (2022). Multi-tier archetypes to characterise British landscapes, farmland and farming practices. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/3b44375a-cbe6-468c-9395-41471054d0f3
• Harvest GUID: 3b44375a-cbe6-468c-9395-41471054d0f3
• Extent: Latitude: 60.861° to 49.864°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.648° to 1.768°
• Dataset reference date: 2022-07-11 (publication)
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• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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