Figures
Figure 1.1. Principal Soil Types in Scotland
Figure 1.2. Land Cover of Scotland 1988 (LCS88)
Figure 2.1 The frequency distribution of carbon content in the uppermost horizon of the soils sampled at 721 sites on the10 km grid National Soils Inventory Scotland
Figure 2.2 Topsoil organic carbon content
Figure 2.3 DOC losses from a site near Loch Ard, Central Scotland, over a 16 year period.
Figure 2.4 DOC concentrations from the Glensaugh ECN site.
Figure 4.1 - Theoretical relationship between diversity and function (After Naeem & Wright, 2003).
Figure 4.2 Assessed percentage cover of soils in Scotland and the Cairngorms National Park
Figure 5.1: Effects of land use on soil aggregate stability and organic matter content.
Figure 6.1 Totals of a) deer and b) sheep numbers in Scotland in recent decades (From Hunt, 2003; Scottish Executive Abstract of Scottish Agricultural Statistics 1982-2003).
Figure 6.2: Trends in suspended sediment concentrations ( SS) for two Scottish rivers.
Figure 6.3: Distribution of the modelled inherent erosion susceptibility to overland flow.
Figure 6.4: Spatial distribution of the total modelled annual sediment loss from point and diffuse sources to ground and surface waters in Scotland.
Figure 7b.1 The distribution of total pesticide loading in Scotland based on land cover and agricultural census data (from Anthony et al., 2006)
Figure 7c.1 Location of sampling points on Scottish soil transects relative to built-up areas ( www.macaulay.ac.uk/tipss).
Figure 7c.2 Trend in Rhizobia numbers ( MPN) with time in control plots and plots amended with sludge with Zn at different elevated concentrations in soil.
Figure 8.1. Loss of prime agricultural land from 1971-1985 (Davidson 1992) and of loss of undifferentiated agricultural land in Scotland from 1989-2003 (Table 8.1).
Figure 9.1 Distribution of the Bilbster Series and its deepened phase on Mainland Orkney.
Figure 9.2. An example of a deepened soil on the west Mainland of Orkney