This spreadsheet tool is designed to work alongside the Biodiversity Metric to explore the changes (gains or losses) in 18 Ecosystem Services following land-use change. It could be used to indicate the wider outcomes – both benefits and trade-offs – of NbS projects.

Describes the diversity of different types of natural and managed grassland in the UK, and provides guidance on creating and managing flower-rich meadows on any scale – from a few square metres in a garden to large fields or urban parks.

This survey is comparatively simple to do, but collects enough vital information to give a good assessment of hedgerow health, as well as robust advice for future management.

This web page links to a 12-page brochure presenting the 10-stage life-cycle management scale developed by Nigel Adams Countryside Management. This aims to help land managers be able to ‘read’ their hedges and decide when they need trimming or rejuvenating.

This guidance includes a set of Powerpoint presentations and individual guides on how to create and manage habitat mosaics in different contexts (heathland, grassland, farmland, woodland, etc).

Old (2006) but comprehensive guidance on how to manage scrub for biodiversity. Scrub is viewed from perspectives as diverse as being of value to many wildlife habitats where it is to be encouraged or maintained, through to being reduced or eradicated as it invades on more important vegetation.

The Urban Tree Manual (The Right Tree in the Right Place for a Resilient Future) has been developed by the Forestry Commission and Forest Research to provide advice on selecting and procuring the right tree for the right place in urban areas.

This manual contains a series of photographs showing examples of good structure and poor structure for different soil types.

Old note, now archived, from 2006, but with useful advice on sourcing seed for flower-rich grassland restoration on farmland. Includes the importance of considering natural regeneration as a first option, situations when natural regeneration may or may now work, and the importance of sourcing seed from local provenance.

This note focuses on the creation of species-rich grassland on former arable land, e.g. for taking less profitable areas out of cultivation such as on steeper and wetter or more remote land, or land with very poor soil. It covers the benefits of arable reversion (e.g.

This note focuses on the creation of species-rich grassland on former arable land, e.g. for taking less profitable areas out of cultivation such as on steeper and wetter or more remote land, or land with very poor soil.

This note focuses on the creation of species-rich grassland on former arable land, e.g. for taking less profitable areas out of cultivation such as on steeper and wetter or more remote land, or land with very poor soil.