A study to develop the scope for monitoring landscape-scale biodiversity impacts

This Contract is a scoping study to inform survey design and stratification of a landscape-scale agri-environment scheme monitoring programme. This scoping study will inform the design, stratification, methodologies and analyses for a landscape-scale monitoring programme to assess the impact of English AES. This includes Countryside Stewardship agreements/capital grants and ongoing Higher Level Stewardship agreements. The scoping study will need to take account of historical AES uptake in study units. The study will help ensure a survey design which both optimises allocation of monitoring resources and generates sufficiently robust conclusions. It will address the following five aspect…

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