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By running those layers of interest through the trade-off algorithms, it is possible to identify areas where interventions provide multiple benefits and those where intervention is undesirable due to the existing agricultural or ecological value. This paper considers three of the services provided by the current (post-tree planting) Pontbren landscape: agricultural productivity, habitat provision, and flood risk mitigation opportunities. Mapped results identify locations in space where synergies, deteriorated services, or tradeoffs between services would occur by planting further broadleaved woodland. Additional results summarize the overall percentages of land where various combinations of negative or positive benefits from planting would occur.