Introduction: Research and the biodiversity action plans in Scotland

Abstract

Summary Biodiversity Action Plans have been published for 226 species and 41 habitats that occur in, or have occurred in, Scotland. About half of the species plans relate to plants and fungi. Each plan has a number of research requirements that can be grouped into three classes: survey and monitoring, cross-cutting issues, and plan-specific issues. This short paper introduces the following collection of nine papers.