Source
Countryside Survey 2000 (CS2000) was a major audit of the British countryside. It involved both detailed field observations and satellite imagery which provided a complete land cover census for Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Description
Analyses A1-A3 show the stock of broad habitat in Great Britain as a whole, and also separate figures for Scotland. Analyses A4-A6 shows the net changes in broad habitat over the period 1984-1998.
Other Links
Key Scottish Environment Statistics 2006
The data is summarised in this booklet (published in August 2006).
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/08/15095714/32
Countryside Survey 2000
For information about the Countryside Survey 2000, including sampling, definitions and results of the other landscape features covered in the survey for the UK.
http://www.cs2000.org.uk/
"Accounting for nature: assessing habitats in the UK countryside". DETR (2000).
The report of the Countryside Survey.
http://www.countrysidesurvey.org.uk/archivecs2000/report.htm
Scottish Natural Heritage: Environmental Audit
Summary of SNH report 'Natural Heritage Trends: Scotland 2001', which includes a section on broad habitat cover of Scotland.
http://www.snh.org.uk/trends/sr-en00.asp