Identification

Title
Woodland Opportunity Map - Tree Suitability
Abstract

This layer shows areas of Wales where a combined basket of 7 tree species can be expected to thrive under a range of factors affecting tree viability. These include soil quality, climate in 2020, flood potential and seasonal extremes. Woodland creation in these areas will contribute to carbon sequestration and timber growth, as well as providing desirable habitat. This data layer comes from modelling work from “Application of ALC and UKCP18 Data modelling for crop suitability” under the Capability, Suitability and Climate Programme led by Welsh Government with input from Environment Systems Limited, RSK ADAS Limited and Cranfield University. The modelling work considered key variables from the Agricultural Land Classification (ALC -soil quality) dataset, UKCP18 (climate) projections, and additional biophysical modelling of wind, frost, salt spray, and flood risk, and how these affect crop growth and selected tree species in different parts of Wales. For the purposes of scoring, this layer is focused on current data (2020) under the medium climate change scenario, as being the most reliable. The representative basket of 7 potential commercial and environmental tree species are:- • Beech, Sessile Oak, Silver Birch • Douglas Fir, Norway Spruce, Sitka Spruce, Western Red Cedar Scoring is based on number of viable tree species per pixel of 50m2; from 0 (areas where none of 7 species are predicted to be suitable), to 5 (areas suitable to all species with no limiting factors).

Licence
Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)

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Publication date
Type
Spatial data
Regions
Global
Approved
Yes
Published
Yes
Featured
No
Group
Land Nature Food

Information

Spatial extent
Projection system
EPSG:27700
Extension x0
165042.90625
Extension x1
355302.9375
Extension y0
165554.984375
Extension y1
395955.0

Features

Spatial Representation Type
Vector data is used to represent geographic data

Contact

Email
data@gov.wales
Organisation
Welsh Government
Department
land nature food

References

Link online
/layers/geonode:wom_tree_species_viability_dissolve_score
Metadata page
/layers/geonode:wom_tree_species_viability_dissolve_score/metadata_detail

Zipped Shapefile
Woodland Opportunity Map - Tree Suitability.zip
GeoJSON
Woodland Opportunity Map - Tree Suitability.json
Excel
Woodland Opportunity Map - Tree Suitability.excel
CSV
Woodland Opportunity Map - Tree Suitability.csv
GML 3.1.1
Woodland Opportunity Map - Tree Suitability.gml
GML 2.0
Woodland Opportunity Map - Tree Suitability.gml
DXF
Woodland Opportunity Map - Tree Suitability.dxf
OGC Geopackage
Woodland Opportunity Map - Tree Suitability.gpkg

OWS endpoints

WMS
WFS