Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environments (C-SIDE)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of St Andrews
Department Name: Geography and Sustainable Development
Abstract
The Earth's climate is warming and sea levels are rising around the globe, flooding and eroding our coasts. One important type of coastal environment that is at risk are saltmarshes. These are vegetated tidal flats that are tucked away in sheltered embayments, where there is a gradual transition between the land and sea. They also occur in more exposed locations where they form a natural defence against the encroaching sea. Saltmarshes are also valuable because the plants that grow on them absorb carbon at a very fast pace, much faster than, for example, trees. Saltmarshes are therefore useful in taking carbon out of the atmosphere and storing it away. Because carbon in the atmosphere is important in controlling the Earth's temperature, storing carbon in the ground can help reduce climate change.
The vegetation on a saltmarsh is close to the level of the highest tides. Every time the tide comes in, a thin layer of mud is deposited on top of the saltmarsh surface. Over time, the saltmarsh mud gets thicker, but it can only increase in thickness if sea level goes up. So in that sense, sea-level rise can be beneficial to saltmarshes, because if the amount of mud gets thicker they can perhaps store more carbon and reduce climate change further! It is a new idea. Whether it is actually true is what we want to find out.
As always, things aren't so simple. Apart from sea-level rise, there are other factors that can play a role in changing the amount of carbon buried in a saltmarsh, for example the tides, the availability of sediment, the types of plants, and whether the marsh is sheltered or exposed to the sea. We have picked 7 coastal regions in Britain that are all slightly different to analyse these different factors. Sea-level rise, the part we think is most important, is much faster in the south, where coasts are sinking, compared to Scotland, where the land is going up ever so slightly. We can treat Britain as a 'natural laboratory' to answer global questions: What controls carbon uptake in saltmarshes? Is sea-level rise beneficial? We expect that our studies will teach us lessons for saltmarshes around the world.
What will we do? We have designed our project into five parts. In part 1 we will look at the salt marsh mud in the past and present. We will measure how thick the mud is by coring and by running equipment which can 'see' below the ground. We will collect four cores at each of the 7 sites and use radioactive dating methods to tell us how old these sediments are. This is important because sea-level change has varied through time and rose much faster in the last 100 years than before. We will also measure the build-up of mud in the present day. In part 2 we will measure how much carbon is stored both above and below the ground. We will survey the plants which are growing on the marsh and then measure them further in the laboratory. We will measure the amount of carbon in the cores we collected, and do analyses to find out where the carbon came from (from the marsh vegetation itself or washed in with the tide). Experiments with buried tea bags will allow us to find out how much carbon is lost from dead plants during burial. And we will recruit members of the general public to help us with sampling so that we can cover more saltmarshes. We have an app for this. In part 3 and 4 we will gather data from various sources and multiply the data from our 7 sites to find out how representative our findings are for the whole of Britain. All saltmarshes will be mapped in 3 dimensions. We will collect data on all environmental factors and find out which ones can predict how much carbon is in saltmarshes using statistics and computer models. The final part 5 is all about the benefits of this project. We will use our results to recommend how managers of coastlines may be able to make use of saltmarshes to help fight climate change and sea-level rise, for example by establishing new saltmarshes on old coastal farmland.
The vegetation on a saltmarsh is close to the level of the highest tides. Every time the tide comes in, a thin layer of mud is deposited on top of the saltmarsh surface. Over time, the saltmarsh mud gets thicker, but it can only increase in thickness if sea level goes up. So in that sense, sea-level rise can be beneficial to saltmarshes, because if the amount of mud gets thicker they can perhaps store more carbon and reduce climate change further! It is a new idea. Whether it is actually true is what we want to find out.
As always, things aren't so simple. Apart from sea-level rise, there are other factors that can play a role in changing the amount of carbon buried in a saltmarsh, for example the tides, the availability of sediment, the types of plants, and whether the marsh is sheltered or exposed to the sea. We have picked 7 coastal regions in Britain that are all slightly different to analyse these different factors. Sea-level rise, the part we think is most important, is much faster in the south, where coasts are sinking, compared to Scotland, where the land is going up ever so slightly. We can treat Britain as a 'natural laboratory' to answer global questions: What controls carbon uptake in saltmarshes? Is sea-level rise beneficial? We expect that our studies will teach us lessons for saltmarshes around the world.
What will we do? We have designed our project into five parts. In part 1 we will look at the salt marsh mud in the past and present. We will measure how thick the mud is by coring and by running equipment which can 'see' below the ground. We will collect four cores at each of the 7 sites and use radioactive dating methods to tell us how old these sediments are. This is important because sea-level change has varied through time and rose much faster in the last 100 years than before. We will also measure the build-up of mud in the present day. In part 2 we will measure how much carbon is stored both above and below the ground. We will survey the plants which are growing on the marsh and then measure them further in the laboratory. We will measure the amount of carbon in the cores we collected, and do analyses to find out where the carbon came from (from the marsh vegetation itself or washed in with the tide). Experiments with buried tea bags will allow us to find out how much carbon is lost from dead plants during burial. And we will recruit members of the general public to help us with sampling so that we can cover more saltmarshes. We have an app for this. In part 3 and 4 we will gather data from various sources and multiply the data from our 7 sites to find out how representative our findings are for the whole of Britain. All saltmarshes will be mapped in 3 dimensions. We will collect data on all environmental factors and find out which ones can predict how much carbon is in saltmarshes using statistics and computer models. The final part 5 is all about the benefits of this project. We will use our results to recommend how managers of coastlines may be able to make use of saltmarshes to help fight climate change and sea-level rise, for example by establishing new saltmarshes on old coastal farmland.
Planned Impact
The following stakeholders and non-academic end-users of the C-SIDE project include: (i) Local and regional coastal partnerships/groups (e.g. Solway Firth Partnership, Solent Forum, East Anglia Coastal Group, etc.); (ii) national UK policy advice partners (e.g. Scottish Natural Heritage, Natural England, Natural Resources Wales, Defra, Crown Estate, RSPB); and (iii) international environmental organizations (e.g. UNEP, IPCC). These organisations will benefit from the first national-scale accounting of intertidal Blue Carbon resources, where the potential natural capital value of that resource can be framed within the context of environmental change (e.g. sea level rise) and existing coastal management plans. In addition, these organisations and the wider general public will benefit from the ecosystem services provided by these habitats in terms of currently unknown long-term carbon storage potential. The wider public in the UK has an appetite to see these natural coastal habitats protected and we are pleased to have developed a component of citizen science within the project to help engage a wider, non-academic audience.
Organisations
Publications
Austin W
(2022)
Challenges in Estuarine and Coastal Science
Burden A
(2019)
Effect of restoration on saltmarsh carbon accumulation in Eastern England.
in Biology letters
Ladd C
(2022)
Best practice for upscaling soil organic carbon stocks in salt marshes
in Geoderma
Ladd C
(2019)
Sediment Supply Explains Long-Term and Large-Scale Patterns in Salt Marsh Lateral Expansion and Erosion
in Geophysical Research Letters
Ladd C
(2021)
Saltmarsh Resilience to Periodic Shifts in Tidal Channels
in Frontiers in Marine Science
Marley A
(2019)
An Assessment of the Tea Bag Index Method as a Proxy for Organic Matter Decomposition in Intertidal Environments
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Maxwell TL
(2023)
Global dataset of soil organic carbon in tidal marshes.
in Scientific data
Description | Initial national stocks (Scotland) have been published and will make a contribution to the final UK-wide carbon stocks from the project. |
Exploitation Route | This work will transform the UK GHG inventory potential of saltmarsh habitats and we anticipate these changes to be announced by UK Government in the next 18 months. |
Sectors | Environment Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Government Democracy and Justice |
URL | https://www.c-side.org/ |
Description | Influenced the decision by WWF-UK to fund a new 3-year project (2022-2025) to develop GHG emissions work for UK saltmarshes. |
First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
Sector | Environment |
Impact Types | Societal |
Description | Contribution to the UK Blue Carbon Evidence Partnership - Evidence Needs Statement |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | UK BCENS is now a roadmap to the adoption (through evidence) of blue carbon into UK NDC committments and UK GHG emission accounting. |
URL | https://www.cefas.co.uk/news-and-resources/news/new-report-calls-for-critical-gaps-in-blue-carbon-ec... |
Description | Evidence to Parliamentary Committee of Scotland's Climate Change Plan update (2021) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | Focus on Blue Carbon and potential to contribute to Net Zero |
Title | Bulk elemental and stable isotope composition of organic matter from terrestrial, intertidal, and marine environments, UK, 2016-2021 |
Description | Bulk elemental (carbon and nitrogen) and stable isotope (delta 13C and delta 15N) data produced from 491 samples collected between 2016-2021 from terrestrial (soil, peat, living biomass, dead biomass), intertidal (saltmarsh vegetation, saltmarsh roots, seagrass biomass, mudflat, faecal matter) and marine (macroalgae, microalgae zooplankton, finfish aquaculture waste) environments across the UK. These samples alongside analytical standard derived from natural materials (lignin, humic acid, cellulose, glucose, protein) were analysed to determine their bulk elemental (organic carbon and nitrogen) and stable isotope (delta 13C org and delta 15N) composition. These values are envisioned to be used to constrain organic carbon sources (terrestrial vs marine) in the natural environment when used alongside isotope mixing models. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/a445a7a8-528d-4e0b-9094-28cbcd449367 |
Title | Change in saltmarsh extent for six regions across Great Britain (1846-2016) |
Description | Data are presented showing change in saltmarsh extent along 25 estuaries/embayments in six regions across Great Britain, between 1846 and 2016. Data were captured from maps and aerial photographs. Marsh extent was delineated a scale of 1:7,500 by placing vertices every 5 m along the marsh edge. Error introduced from: (i) inaccuracies in the basemap used to georeference maps and aerial photographs; (ii) the georeferencing procedure itself; (iii) the interpreter when placing vertices on the marsh edge; and (iv) map and photo distortions that occurred prior to digitisation were calculated and used to estimate the root mean square error (RMSE) in areal extent of each marsh complex. Measures of marsh extent were only recorded if maps and aerial photographs were available for the entire estuary/embayment. Data was collected as part of a study on the large-scale, long-term trends and causes of lateral saltmarsh change. The data was used in the analysis for Ladd et al. (2019). C. Ladd and M.F. Duggan-Edwards carried out the collection and processing of the saltmarsh extent data. All authors contributed to the interpretation of the data. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Title | Core LI21/20 |
Description | Data analysed in "Saltmarsh blue carbon accumulation rates and their relationship with sea-level rise over the last 100 years: a case study from northern England". Includes the radionuclide data used to generate an age-depth model to date the sediment core and determine sediment accretion rates. Also includes the carbon content, labile and recalcitrant organic matter content, and dry bulk density of each centimetre of the core. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Core_LI21_20/23815941 |
Title | Database: Tidal Marsh Soil Organic Carbon (MarSOC) Dataset |
Description | The repository is formatted in the following structure: - README.md: markdown file with repository description - MarSOC-Dataset.Rproj: R project file - useful when using RStudio - Maxwell_MarSOC_dataset.csv: .csv file containing the final dataset. The data structure is described in the metadata file. It contains 17,454 records distributed amongst 29 countries. - Maxwell_MarSOC_dataset_metadata.csv: .csv file containing the main data file metadata (equivalent to Table 1). - data_paper/: folder containing the list of studies included in the dataset, as well as figures for this data paper (generated from the following R script: 'reports/04_data_process/scripts/04_data-paper_data_clean.R'). - reports/01_litsearchr/: folder containing .bib files with references from the original naive search, a .Rmd document describing the litsearchr analysis using nodes to go from the naive search to the final search string, and the .bib files from this final search, which were then imported into sysrev for abstract screening. - reports/02_sysrev/: folder with .csv files exported from sysrev after abstract screening. These files contain the included studies with their various labels. - reports/03_data_format/: folder containing all original data, associated scripts, and exported data. - reports/04_data_process/: folder containing data processing scripts to bind and clean the exported data, as well as a script testing the different models for predicting soil organic carbon from organic matter and finalising the equation using all available data. A script testing and removing outliers is also included. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/8414110 |
Title | Dry bulk density, loss on ignition and organic carbon content of surficial soils from English and Welsh salt marshes 2019 |
Description | The data provide a quantitative measure of the dry bulk density, soil texture, organic matter content (LOI) and organic carbon present within surface soils (up to a depth of 10 cm). A total of 212 samples from 49 sites across England and Wales were collected using modified syringe samplers as part of the citizen scientist programme CarbonQuest, part of Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environments (C-SIDE) project. Sites were chosen to represent contrasting habitats across England and Wales, in particular sediment types, vegetation and sea level history.The samples were processed for bulk density, soil texture, organic matter content using the Loss on Ignition (LOI) method and the organic carbon was quantified through elemental analysis. The data were collected to help create a detailed picture of saltmarsh carbon storage in surficial soils across England and Wales. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e5554b83-910f-4030-8f4e-81967dc7047c |
Title | Dry bulk density, loss on ignition and organic carbon content of surficial soils from Scottish salt marshes, 2018-2019 |
Description | The dataset comprises of biogeochemical measurements of saltmarsh soil collected from 46 salt marshes across Scotland. Sites were chosen to represent contrasting habitats across Scotland, in particular sediment types, vegetation and sea level history. The data provide a quantitative measure of the dry bulk density, soil texture, organic matter content (LOI) and organic carbon present within surface soils (up to a depth of 10 cm). A total of 471 samples were collected, 157 of the samples were collected using modified syringe samplers as part of the citizen scientist programme CarbonQuest (Part of C-SIDE) these were supplemented by a further 109 samples from the C-SIDE team. The remaining 205 samples were collected using a soil corer (Gouge) as part of the C-SIDE sampling programme. The samples were processed for bulk density, soil texture, organic matter content using the Loss on Ignition (LOI) method and the organic carbon was quantified through elemental analysis. The data were collected to help create a detailed picture of saltmarsh carbon storage across Scotland. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/81a1301f-e5e2-44f9-afe0-0ea5bb08010f |
Title | Global positioning system (GPS) locations and elevations of soil sampling sites across UK saltmarshes 2018 to 2021 |
Description | The dataset details global positioning system (GPS) locations and elevations recorded for 1323 sampling sites across UK saltmarshes. Between 2018 and 2021, soil was sampled at 1323 locations as part of the Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environments (C-SIDE) project to facilitate the calculation of saltmarsh soil organic carbon stocks and burial rates. Sites were chosen to represent contrasting habitat types in the UK, in particular sediment types, vegetation and sea level history. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d61b6033-be45-4682-b4dc-a2f95feefa7d |
Title | Grain size distributions in saltmarsh soil samples from UK saltmarshes collected between 2018 and 2021 |
Description | The dataset details the grain size distributions of 459 subsamples from 18 soil cores collected from across 14 UK saltmarshes between 2018 - 2021. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/aa4c9ff1-8215-49bf-b044-32e66f290d95 |
Title | Labile, recalcitrant, and refractory organic matter in soil samples from UK saltmarshes collected between 2018 and 2021 |
Description | The dataset details the quantification of three different pools of organic matter (labile, recalcitrant, and refractory) within 1211 down core soil samples collect from across UK saltmarsh sites between 2018 - 2021. Additionally, the dataset presents a measure of organic matter reactivity using the carbon reactivity index (CRI). The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/9a62bb8a-dd88-42d2-9af2-25ec338110e6 |
Title | Physical and biogeochemical measurements of aboveground (vegetation) biomass from across ten saltmarshes, UK, 2019-2020 |
Description | The data represent a quantitative measure of aboveground (vegetation) biomass, organic carbon content and aboveground (vegetation) carbon from 144 vegetation samples collected across ten UK saltmarshes between 2019 and 2020. Sites were chosen to represent contrasting habitat types in the United Kingdom, in particular sediment types, vegetation, and sea level history. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f71c9f3e-0ae1-4318-a3ea-1dd30b7af3be |
Title | Physical and biogeochemical measurements of belowground biomass and carbon content from Scottish salt marshes, 2021 |
Description | The dataset comprises of physical and biogeochemical measurements of belowground (root) biomass from across four Scottish saltmarshes. Sites were chosen to represent contrasting habitats types in Scotland, in particular sediment types, vegetation and sea level history. The data provide a quantitative measure of belowground (root) biomass, organic carbon content and belowground (root) carbon. Samples were collected using a wide gauge gouge corer. The samples were processed to determine belowground (root) biomass, the organic carbon was quantified through elemental analysis and these two data sets were combined to calculate the belowground (root) carbon content. The data were collected to help create a detailed picture of saltmarsh carbon storage in surficial soils across Scotland. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/032627e0-5780-4601-b9b3-e684403cee70 |
Title | Physical and geochemical properties of saltmarsh soils from narrow diameter gouge cores in UK saltmarshes collected between 2018 and 2021 |
Description | The dataset comprises of physical and biogeochemical measurements of saltmarsh soils from across 22 UK saltmarshes. Between 2018 and 2021, 462 narrow diameter gouge cores (30 mm in diameter) were collected as part of the Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environments (C-SIDE) project to facilitate the calculation of saltmarsh soil organic carbon stocks. Sites were chosen to represent contrasting habitats types in the UK, in particular sediment types, vegetation and sea level history. The data provides a quantitative measure of soil dry bulk density and organic carbon content across varies substrate and marsh types. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d301c5f5-77f5-41ba-934e-a80e1293d4cd |
Title | Physical and geochemical properties of saltmarsh soils from wide diameter gouge cores in Essex, UK, collected in 2019 |
Description | Physical and geochemical measurements of saltmarsh soils produced from 19 wide diameter gouge cores (60 mm in diameter) collected from 8 sites encompassing saltmarshes with different origins (natural, historic breach, managed realignment) in 2019. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/fa3f4087-528e-4c5d-90d8-6bb4675d6317 |
Title | Physical and geochemical properties of saltmarsh soils from wide diameter gouge cores in UK saltmarshes collected between 2018 and 2021 |
Description | The dataset comprises of physical and biogeochemical measurements of saltmarsh soils from across 19 UK saltmarshes. The data provides a quantitative measure of soil dry bulk density, organic carbon content, nitrogen content, CN ratio, N/C ratio, d13Corg and d15N across varies substrate and marsh types. Between 2018 and 2021, 33 wide diameter gouge cores (60 mm in diameter) were collected as part of the Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environments (C-SIDE) project to facilitate the calculation of organic carbon burial rates in saltmarsh soils. Sites were chosen to represent contrasting habitats types in the UK, in particular sediment types, vegetation and sea level history. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/279558cd-20fb-4f19-8077-4400817a4482 |
Title | Radioisotope concentrations of soil samples from UK saltmarshes collected between 2018 and 2021 |
Description | The dataset details radioisotope concentrations (210Pb, 214Pb, 137Cs, 241Am) of 1358 down core soil samples collected from 19 saltmarshes across the UK between 2018 -2021. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/a85756f9-2685-4ec4-ac44-3210425ba70e |
Title | Sedimentological and organic carbon data from the Kyle of Tongue saltmarsh, Scotland, 2018 |
Description | The dataset comprises of physical property and biogeochemical measurements of saltmarsh soil collected using the hammer coring technique from the Kyle of Tongue saltmarsh in the North of Scotland. The site was chosen to represent northern, loch head marshes and to test different coring techniques in organic rich soils. The data provides a quantitative measure of the dry bulk density, water content, porosity and organic carbon content present within the soils of the Kyle of Tongue saltmarsh. A total of 4 cores were collected, 39 samples were collected at 10cm intervals down the length of each core. The samples were processed for bulk density, water content, porosity and organic carbon content which was quantified through elemental analysis. The data were collected to help create a detailed picture of saltmarsh carbon storage in the soils of UK saltmarsh and test different coring approaches. The cores were collected by the data authors in November 2018. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/b57ef444-54d4-47f9-8cbf-3cfef1182b55 |
Title | Soil profile descriptions from narrow diameter cores in UK saltmarshes collected between 2018 and 2021 |
Description | The dataset details the soil profiles described from the narrow diameter cores collected from 474 sampling sites across UK saltmarshes collected between 2018 - 2021. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/55760544-b0a6-4845-a2e0-1cf533996c64 |
Title | Spatial mapping of surficial soil organic carbon storage and stocks across Great British saltmarshes |
Description | The geospatial dataset maps organic carbon (OC) storage (kg OC m-2) and OC stocks (tonnes OC) of surficial soils across 438 Great British saltmarshes. The OC density for the surficial soils (top 10 cm) is mapped across 451.65 km2 of saltmarshes, identified from current saltmarsh maps of Great Britain's three constituent countries; Scotland, England and Wales The spatial maps are built upon surficial (top 10 cm) soil bulk density and carbon data produced by the NERC C-Side project and Marine Scotland data combined with existing saltmarsh vegetation maps. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/cb8840f2-c630-4a86-9bba-d0e070d56f04 |
Title | Vegetation composition data from UK saltmarshes, 2018 to 2021 |
Description | The dataset details vegetation composition of UK saltmarshes measured from quadrats across UK saltmarshes. Between 2018 and 2021, vegetation surveys were carried out at 460 sites across 33 saltmarshes as part of the Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environments (C-SIDE) project to develop an understanding the linkages between saltmarsh soil organic carbon and vegetation. Sites were chosen to represent contrasting habitats types in the UK, in particular sediment types, vegetation and sea level history. The dataset comprises of percentage species cover, plant height, plant richness and plant diversity data from 33 UK saltmarshes. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
URL | https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/7815291a-ee3e-49a7-8ef1-e8baa81f4964 |
Description | Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | C-SIDE project was selected to exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2020. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2020/summer-science-exhibition/ |