REWILDING AND RESTORATION OF INTERTIDAL SEDIMENT ECOSYSTEMS FOR CARBON SEQUESTRATION, CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND BIODIVERSITY SUPPORT

潮间带沉积物生态系统的野化和恢复，以实现碳固存、气候适应和生物多样性支持

• 批准号: 10098435
• 金额: $ 72.61万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10098435
• 关键词: REWILDING; RESTORATION; INTERTIDAL; SEDIMENT; ECOSYSTEMS

Within European coastal zones, intertidal areas consisting of soft sediment emerging during each low tide, form complex seascapes covering more than 10 000 km2 along the 35 000 km of the tidal coastline. These habitats provide multiple ecosystem services with great potential to cope with the biodiversity-climate crisis by contributing to carbon neutrality, climate resilience and biodiversity support. Nevertheless, these seascapes continue to be fragmented and threatened, resulting in a decrease of their provision of services. Rewilding, a nature-based solution, is a new concept for seascapes to reverse this situation and to “let (again) Nature do the job” ensuring climate resilience, biodiversity support and societal benefit of the future European shoreline. Within a network of 10 demonstrators and 25 partners from 11 European states, including 8 with a tidal coast, plus the UK, Canada and the USA, REWRITE will bring an interdisciplinary consortium of natural and coastal environment and social sciences and humanities experts to address the current ecological and social challenges regarding intertidal seascape rewilding. Expanding innovative approaches, REWRITE will focus on the climate-biodiversity society nexus, to reach 4 specific objectives: -identify environmental, social and cultural drivers and barrier parameters to rewild intertidal sediment seascapes within the context of climate change; -strongly engage stakeholders to achieve a step-change in their appreciation of the natural function of these seascapes and integrate their interests within a co-design of scenario for future European shoreline; - estimate and upscale trajectories of intertidal seascapes from the local to the European level, following rewilding (passive), restoring (active), “business as usual” or “do nothing” options; -establish tools and methods for successful rewilding to ensure a high ecological and societal co-benefit/low-cost ratio for a climate-neutral and resilient European shoreline

在欧洲海岸带内，由每次低潮时出现的软沉积物组成的潮间带形成了复杂的海景，覆盖沿着35 000 km的潮汐海岸线超过10 000 km 2。这些生境提供多种生态系统服务，通过促进碳中和、气候复原力和生物多样性支持，具有科普生物多样性-气候危机的巨大潜力。然而，这些海洋景观仍然支离破碎，受到威胁，导致其提供的服务减少。野化是一种基于自然的解决方案，是一种新的海景概念，可以扭转这种情况，并“让（再次）大自然做这项工作”，确保未来欧洲海岸线的气候适应能力，生物多样性支持和社会效益。在来自11个欧洲国家的10个示范者和25个合作伙伴的网络中，包括8个潮汐海岸，以及英国，加拿大和美国，REWRITE将带来一个由自然和沿海环境以及社会科学和人文科学专家组成的跨学科联盟，以解决当前有关潮间带海景恢复的生态和社会挑战。扩大创新方法，REWRITE将专注于气候-生物多样性社会关系，以实现4个具体目标：-确定气候变化背景下再生潮间带沉积物海景的环境，社会和文化驱动因素和障碍参数;- 大力吸引利益相关者参与，以实现他们对这些海景自然功能的认识的逐步转变，并将他们的利益整合到一个共同的环境中。- 按照野化（被动）、恢复（主动）、“一切照旧”或“什么都不做”的备选办法，估计和扩大从地方到欧洲一级的潮间带海景轨迹;- 制定成功恢复野生动物的工具和方法，以确保气候的高生态和社会共同效益/低成本比率，中性和弹性的欧洲海岸线