Fig. 2
Land cover types on nine hunting estates in the Scottish Highlands. The scale-bar at the top left of each map represents a 4 × 1 km2 area. Land cover data (LCS88) were obtained from the UK government [28]. The maps were created using QGIS v2.18.2, R v 3.5.2, RStudio v1.1.383 and the rgdal and PBSmapping R packages [33, 34] and were produced in accordance with the Public Sector (Scotland) End User License Agreement–1 August 2017–31 July 2018 for the use of Ordnance Survey data through EDINA Digimap (http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/webhelp/os/copyright/licence_agreement.htm#5.1.4). Abbreviations: AL, Alladale; AT, Altnaharra; AP, Applecross Trust; AR, Ardnamurchan; BA, Badanloch; BL, Ben Loyal; CO, Conaglen; NA, North Harris Trust and Aline; ST, Strathconon