WINS Natural Flood Management: Opportunities for Riparian Woodland Planting

This dataset was created for the Welsh Information for Nature Bases Solution or WINS project (Previously known as SCCAN) to identify opportunities to carry out land management interventions to increase ecosystem service delivery in a number of key policy areas. There is an accompanying User Guide to assist in the use of these datasets. What this map shows: This map shows the opportunity space for planting riparian woodland for NFM benefits. It is important to note that most effective use of these opportunity spaces would be to plant deep-rooting species, particularly broadleaved species, in order to fully realise the NFM potential.

Identifier: NRW_DS121698

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SCCAN Natural Flood Management: Opportunities for Riparian Woodland Planting
Rheolaeth Naturiol o Lifogydd: Cyfleoedd ar gyfer Plannu Coetir y Glannau

Metadata Language: English

Lineage: How the map has been created: The suitability for woodland planting has been established using ALC data split into different attributes (soil depth, climate, stoniness, slope, drought and wetness), as well as the current land cover; these datasets were used to identify where it is biophysically possible to plant trees. To identify opportunities for new woodland adjacent to waterways, areas within 50m of rivers or 30m of drainage channels were considered; within this opportunity space, sensitivities were identified and constraints applied. The constraints to riparian planting are presented in a separate map and included areas within 500m of the coast, areas that are scheduled ancient monuments, and areas on climate change-resilient peat. The opportunity space for riparian woodland is less constrained than the opportunities for floodplain woodland or wider catchment woodland. This is because the scale of riparian planting is much smaller, and can often be achieved without changing the overall existing land use or character of an area. For example, it may be possible to carry out riparian planting on existing agricultural land, within certain designated sites (if the site is big enough and planting would be compatible with the site conservation objectives). This dataset was produced for NRW under contract by Environment Systems Ltd.

Additional Information: Data gaps and limitations: National Phase 1 dataset is likely out of date in many places. Taking the first 500m from the coastline out of the opportunity space is a rough approximation of a complex problem. Ideally, all areas would be taken out that do not have areas at risk of flooding downslope from them or are too close to the area at risk of flooding to have a noticeable effect on the extent of river swelling The extent of Fridd has been modelled; therefore, it can neither be guaranteed that all Fridd will be included, nor that all land found to likely contain Fridd actually contains Fridd of high biodiversity value.

Dataset Reference Date (Publication): 2018-04-01

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Begin date: 2017-09-01

End date: 2018-04-01

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Planning cadastre
Farming
Biota
Geoscientific information
Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Environment
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Elevation
Imagery base maps earth cover
Inland waters

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Natural Resources Wales (NRW)

Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales

http://naturalresources.wales/?lang=en

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Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales

http://naturalresources.wales/?lang=en

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Lineage: How the map has been created: The suitability for woodland planting has been established using ALC data split into different attributes (soil depth, climate, stoniness, slope, drought and wetness), as well as the current land cover; these datasets were used to identify where it is biophysically possible to plant trees. To identify opportunities for new woodland adjacent to waterways, areas within 50m of rivers or 30m of drainage channels were considered; within this opportunity space, sensitivities were identified and constraints applied. The constraints to riparian planting are presented in a separate map and included areas within 500m of the coast, areas that are scheduled ancient monuments, and areas on climate change-resilient peat. The opportunity space for riparian woodland is less constrained than the opportunities for floodplain woodland or wider catchment woodland. This is because the scale of riparian planting is much smaller, and can often be achieved without changing the overall existing land use or character of an area. For example, it may be possible to carry out riparian planting on existing agricultural land, within certain designated sites (if the site is big enough and planting would be compatible with the site conservation objectives). This dataset was produced for NRW under contract by Environment Systems Ltd.

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Sustainable Management of Natural Resources (SMNR)
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Parent Identifier: WINS Area Statement Opportunity Maps
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Metadata Date: 2024-05-31T09:17:35.604Z

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Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales

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