67f9fe33-14dd-4676-9a6d-65fdbafe2a46 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:24:59 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Simulated landscape metrics of configuration and Ecosystem Service provision across virtual landscapes, based within River Conwy 2019-09-30 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/67f9fe33-14dd-4676-9a6d-65fdbafe2a46 10.5285/67f9fe33-14dd-4676-9a6d-65fdbafe2a46 doi: Masante, D., Thomas, A.R.C. (2019). Simulated landscape metrics of configuration and Ecosystem Service provision across virtual landscapes, based within River Conwy . NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/67f9fe33-14dd-4676-9a6d-65fdbafe2a46 These data are metrics of landscape configuration and modelled provision of Ecosystem services for a large number of virtual landscapes (c. 7500) superimposed on real topography. The landscapes are made up of patches of woodland interspersed across a grassland, and were generated with the landscapeR package in R. The topography used is from the Conwy catchment, split into 10 sections to enable comparison between topographies. Metrics were generated for each virtual landscape to quantify landscape configuration. An Ecosystem Services model (LUCI) was run to calculate a metric of “area mitigated” as a proxy for the provision of runoff mitigation Ecosystem Services. Simulated landscapes were established to answer two questions: firstly to identify the relative controls of patch area and fragmentation on service provision and secondly to identify catchment feature controls on these relationships. The work was done by Dario Masante and Amy Thomas, with input from Laurence Jones, as part of work under the NERC Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BESS) project NERC Grant Ref: NE/K015508/1. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/67f9fe33-14dd-4676-9a6d-65fdbafe2a46 NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Thomas, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Masante, D. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Thomas, A.R.C. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4929-7285 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication ecosystem services land use GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation landscape configuration non-linear response land use change Ecosystem Service bundles LandscapeR Land Utilisation Capability Indicator (LUCI) otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Masante, D., Thomas, A.R.C. (2019). Simulated landscape metrics of configuration and Ecosystem Service provision across virtual landscapes, based within River Conwy . NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/67f9fe33-14dd-4676-9a6d-65fdbafe2a46 textTable 5 English utf8 environment -3.966 -3.724 53.028 53.278 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/67f9fe33-14dd-4676-9a6d-65fdbafe2a46 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/67f9fe33-14dd-4676-9a6d-65fdbafe2a46.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Relatively simple landscapes were produced consisting of two components in varying landscape configurations. To do this LandscapeR, was artificially set with the whole area as improved grassland. Patches of woodland were then added within this landscape, in controlled combinations of patch area and number of patches. LandscapeR was set to expand patches in circular patterns to minimise the influence of patch shape on our analysis. In the first stage of the simulation, 100 simulated landscape configurations of woodland patches and improved grassland were created for the Hiraethlyn sub-catchment, allocating patches randomly up to the user input number of patches and area of coverage. In the second phase of analysis, the landscape generation approach was repeated for 10 test areas. For this phase, landscape proportion and patch number were not pre-set, so the landscapes generated have random numbers of patches and fall along a continuum from 0-100% woodland, instead of being clustered around set landscape proportions. The Land Utilisation Capability Indicator (LUCI) model was run for each landscape to provide a value of “area mitigated”. For both datasets, landscape metrics were calculated using SDMTools and SAGA terrain modules in R. QA: Note that as patches start accumulating in the landscape, they merge and so the complexity of patch shapes inevitably increases. For dataset “Output_SummaryHiraethlyn”, since patch placement was random, some user set combinations were not achieved in the output, due to merging of patches, reducing the actual number of patches. To minimise merging, when allocation resulted in a lesser number of patches than seeded, the process was repeated until the seed number was reached, or the highest in one hundred trials. User input landscape proportion was given preference over achieving the number of patches. Merging may therefore result in a negative correlation between landscape proportion and number of patches across the dataset, and we must take this into account when analysing the outputs. Data were output to Excel spreadsheets. Data was then exported to comma separated files for ingestion into the EIDC.