Studies sites in Scottish Highlands and locations of Magdale (A) and Touan Beth (B), in which field photos are showing their region and existing plants. Credit: Dr. Amilia Penny, Edinburra University
Despite the increasing concern about the loss of geometricity due to biological diversity and climate crisis, scientists have little information about the pace and complexity of biological diversity changes over the past thousand years.
To tackle this challenge, experts from the University of Edinburgh, the University of St. Andrews and National T -Esing Hua University, Taiwan, have recently implemented a developed technique to find out that the biological diversity of the plant has changed the land in Scotland, two years in Scotland.
Has appeared in research Journal of Environment.
Researchers analyzed the records of ancient girlfriends, which are preserved in the layers of the stomach and are important archives of past changes in the plant communities. This technique allowed the group to investigate changes in the number of species of plants, but also the number of functional groups and evolutionary history obtained in the communities of plant communities over the thousands of years of climate change.
This multi -dimensional approach to measuring biological diversity shows samples of changes in biological diversity that will not be identified otherwise, and allows to compare these different aspects of biological diversity directly.
Both sites reacted different reactions to long -term changes in climate and land use. The blanket bog site has been a stable but long -term shift from a stable but long -term biological diversity and forest cover shifts in the centuries.
On the ancient Wylandland site, biological diversity changed rapidly as a complex mosaic of different residences allowed various species, evolutionary tissues and active groups to retain and recover through numerous obstacles.
However, in the last 1,200 years, all kinds of biological diversity have decreased a rapidly decline, as human management of the forest field prevails over a variety of trees species.
Dr. Amelia Penny, Lecturer of Ecological Science, the School of Geoscience, the University of Edinburgh, who guided the study, said, “This study reflects the complex role of the use of long -term biological changes in two contradictory locations in Scotland. Climate changes to understand the bioidodological records. “
More information:
Amilia M.Penne Et El, Holson Jirg Records apply a united framework to compare texionomic, functional and philosophic diversity in records, Journal of Environment (2025) DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.70093
Provided by Edinburgh University
Reference: Scotland scenes (2025, August 20) were recovered from long-term, complex geometric changes in https://phys.org/news/2025-08 -commplex-biodirersity-scotland.html on August 22, 2025.
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