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“We are delighted to see the first commercial crop of Ben Lawers this year. Hopefully this cultivar will pioneer innovation in climate resilient crop category, deliver exceptional quality and make the way for further climate-resilient cultivars that are currently on trials at the Institute” This week, UK blackcurrant farmers are harvesting a groundbreaking new crop of berries that have been bred to cope with Britain’s changing climate. Named ‘Ben Lawers’, the new variety is the fruit of a longstanding partnership between Lucozade Ribena Suntory, which uses 90 per cent of Britain’s
The opportunities for woodland creation within one of Scotland’s two national parks will be explored as part of a new fellowship. The Scottish Government-funded fellowship will independently examine the opportunities and constraints for expanding woodland in Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park in order to meet climate and biodiversity priorities. Despite a clear emphasis on woodland expansion from the Scottish and UK Governments, and planting opportunities and incentives being on offer within the National Park, uptake of these by land managers has been limited. Fellow Rob McMorran (link
Jackie Potts is Senior Statistician at Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland. Her research interests include: Environmental statistics Applications of statistics in socio-economics Meteorological applications of statistics Applications of statistics in agriculture and ecology Some current and recent projects include: Providing statistical advice to the resampling programme for the National Soils Inventory Scotland Design and analysis of choice experiments Design of soil monitoring schemes Multivariate analysis of soil microbial communities
“Our work shows that tree planting locations need to be carefully sited, taking into account soil conditions, otherwise the tree planting will not result in the desired increase in carbon storage and climate change mitigation” Planting huge numbers of trees to mitigate climate change is “not always the best strategy” – with some experimental sites in Scotland failing to increase carbon stocks, a new study co-authored by Hutton scientists has found. Experts analysed four locations in Scotland where birch trees were planted onto heather moorland – and found that, over decades, there was no net
Considerations for data collection and systematic analysis
Analysis of an evolving database based on the Peatland Action Programme in Scotland