The Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme was a project funded by the Welsh Government in order to take stock of the Welsh countryside and examine how the Welsh agri-environment scheme was performing. There was a national-scale field survey that took place over the summers of 2013-16, along with various modelling efforts. A full description of the project, its findings and reports are on its website.
Photos from GMEP final report
Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme
Photos from GMEP final report
Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme
Fiona Seaton
Research Associate - Quantitative Ecologist
My research interests include plant-soil interactions, soil microbial ecology and statistical methods in ecology.
Publications
Woodland, cropland and hedgerows promote pollinator abundance in intensive grassland landscapes, with saturating benefits of flower cover
Bee, butterfly and hoverfly abundance are associated with woody features across the Welsh landscape.
Integrated ecological monitoring in Wales: the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme field survey
The Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) ran from 2013 until 2016 and was probably the most comprehensive programme of …
Topsoil particle size distribution from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2016
Soil texture data from the GMEP survey.
Soil health cluster analysis based on national monitoring of soil indicators
We present topsoil physicochemical properties from ~1350 sites across Wales and identify soil health classes.
Soil textural heterogeneity impacts bacterial but not fungal diversity
Soil textural heterogeneity is linked to bacterial richness, and textural composition is linked to bacterial and fungal composition.
Plant and soil communities are associated with the response of soil water repellency to environmental stress
Surface soil water repellency is related to the ecological communities at a site.
Topsoil physico-chemical properties from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2016
Soil carbon, pH, nitrogen, phosphorus, bulk density, electrical conductivity, water content and water repellency data from the GMEP …
Divergent national-scale trends of microbial and animal biodiversity revealed across diverse temperate soil ecosystems
Biodiversity of soil microbes and soil animals show different patterns across land use.
