Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme - ERAMMP Year 1 Report 15: Responsive Monitoring Part 1 - Selection of ERAMMP field survey squares

A reduction in the number of GMEP squares to be revisited in the ERAMMP field survey is required to meet budgetary constraints whilst ensuring the survey will deliver the most robust evidence base which is responsive to such issues as the actual uptake of different Glastir interventions by contract-holders/land-managers and the capture of those within the baseline GMEP survey. An approach was needed which would maximise outputs matched to policy priorities for assessing national trends, provide evidence for the outcomes of Glastir interventions and optimise where changes were most likely to be detected. The target is to reduce survey squares from 300 to 240 1km squares.