Scotland's Soil Resource - Current State and Threats

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Table 4.1 - Soil-dependent fungal species (excluding plant pathogens without a soil stage and species not recorded in Scotland). All information from http://www.ukbap.org.uk/ and subsequent web pages http://www.ukbap.org.uk/UKPlans.aspx?ID=338 viewed on 30 th March 2006 as well as Anon, 1999.

Table 4.2 Species lists of invertebrates with life stage in soil that are identified on BAPs and Red Book lists and are recorded in Scotland. ( http://www.ukbap.org.uk/ and subsequent pages ~ /SpeciesGroup.aspx?ID=4 and ~SpeciesGroup.aspx?ID=23) viewed on 30 th March 2006).

Table 5.1: Effects of farm traffic type on soil compaction.

Table 6.1: Number of inventory points with erosion features recorded grouped by land cover type.

Table 6.2: Event-based studies of erosion of lowland agricultural soils in Scotland.

Table 6.3: Soil erosion classes in Agricultural Land Use Categories with tilled land.

Table 6.4: Modelled total annual sediment losses (tonnes per year) to surface waters, by source.

Table 7a.1 Critical load exceedance by country and woodland habitat type calculated using deposition data for 1995-97 and predicted modelled data for 2010.

Table 7b.1 Year of pesticide usage surveys in Scotland (from Anthony et al., 2006).

Table 7b.2 Modelled total annual loads of Priority Substances and selected pesticides applied in Scotland (from Anthony et al., 2006).

Table 7c.1 Heavy metal concentrations (mg kg -1) in soils of Scotland from NSIS and CS2000 data (median values).

Table 7c.2. Mean values and ranges (mg kg -1) for a range of heavy metals in the four transects across Scotland.

Table 8.1 Conversion of agricultural land to selected other uses.

Table 8.2 Areas (ha) of derelict and non-derelict land approved for opencast coal mining

Table 9.1: Preferential conditions (pH, drainage and oxidation) for preservation of different archaeological material, based on English Heritage (2002).

Table 11.1 Comparison of threats across all soil functions

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