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Towards a New Paradigm for the Ecology of Northern
& Western Scotland. A synthesis of issues
OLD PARADIGM The current landscape consists of degraded
ecosystems, largely through past and present human action.
Hence ‘habitat restoration’ is a key activity.
NEW PARADIGM The landscape of northern and western
Scotland contains one of the most natural vegetation patterns in
Europe with, for example, the current rarity of woodland in
many localities being a key biodiversity feature. Hence the
concept of ‘habitat restoration’ loses its meaning.
Is rewilding destroying the remaining
naturalness of the Scottish Highlands?
Paper presented to the Wild Thing?
Conference, Sheffield, September 2015
Deciding on the balance between
moorland and woodland in the Scottish
uplands: an overview at the landscape
scale
In La Canada No.7 Spring 2003
The Upland Ecology of Scotland: A Review
of the Favourable Condition Approach in
Relation to Grazing and Carbon Storage
30 pages, 13 photographs, 5 diagrams.
2014
Published essays 2013-2017
Choppy seas ahead for our fisherman The Scotsman 13 July 2018
Price of woods culturally costly The Scotsman 25 May 2017
Should Scotland be like Norway? The Scottish Gamekeeper May
2016
Moorland: why do we want it and where? The Scottish
Gamekeeper April 2015
Hunting, shooting, saving our moors Sunday Herald Essay 11
August 2014
The deer-forest divide The Shooting Times 14 November 2013
The dark side of the woods Sunday Herald Essay 27 October 2013
& various unpublished essays
Essays from ECOS
19 essays in the journal ECOS 1983-
2003, published by the British
Association of Nature Conservationists
