Quantifying gross vs. net agricultural land use change in Great Britain using the Integrated Administration and Control System

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 628-629; pp. 1234 - 1248
• Main Authors: Tomlinson, Samuel J., Dragosits, Ulrike, Levy, Peter E., Thomson, Amanda M., Moxley, Janet
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.07.2018
• Subjects: Agricultural emissions; agricultural land; Agriculture; anthropogenic activities; carbon; Carbon flux; crop rotation; ecosystems; European Union; farming systems; forestry; Great Britain; Greenhouse gas; Land cover; land use change; logging; planting; plowing; surveys; Great Britain; Carbon flux; Agriculture; Land cover; Agricultural emissions; Greenhouse gas

•Novel assessment of agricultural land use change in Great Britain (GB).•Field-level land use data assessed on an annual basis, for nine years.•Gross land use change analysed at a 25m resolution for 70% of the GB land surface.•Gross land use change in GB is, on average, 3 times higher than net chang...