A hierarchical approach to the examination of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem service flows across coastal margins

检验沿海边缘生物多样性与生态系统服务流之间关系的分层方法

• 批准号: NE/J01513X/1
• 负责人: Richard Bradbury
• 金额: $ 0.91万
• 依托单位: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FJ01513X%2F1
• 关键词: hierarchical; approach; examination; relationship; between

CBESS Summary:The health of the UK's coastlines is inextricably linked to our success as an island nation, and resonates through our economy, our recreation, and our culture. Most pressingly, of all the UK's many and varied landscapes, its coastal systems are the ones most immediately sensitive to climate change. As temperatures increase, sea levels will rise and the forces experienced where land and sea meet will become more destructive. Salt marshes, mudflats, beaches and rocky shores will all be affected but, of these areas, the most sensitive are the mudflats and salt marshes that are common features of coastal systems, and which comprise just over half of the UK's total estuarine area. Not only do these landscapes support a wide range of economically valuable animal and plant species, they also act as sites of carbon storage, nutrient recycling, and pollutant capture and destruction. Their preservation is, therefore, of the utmost importance, requiring active and informed management to save them for future generations. The Natural Environment Research Council's call to help understand the landscape-scale links between the functions that these systems provide (ecosystem service flows) and the organisms that help provide these services (biodiversity stocks) offers an important opportunity to move beyond most previous work in this field, which has been conducted at small or laboratory scales. While of foundational scientific importance, the implications of laboratory studies can be hard to translate into policy, and coastal managers require a clearer evidence base to understand how ecosystem service flows operate at much larger spatial scales, e.g. entire salt marshes or regions of intertidal flat and salt marshes. The programme we are proposing 'A hierarchical approach to the examination of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem service flows across coastal margins' (CBESS) will provide such a large scale understanding. Our consortium of UK experts ranges from microbial ecologists, through environmental economists, to mathematical modellers, including organisations like the BTO and the RSPB, who have immediate and vested interest in the sustainable use of coastal wetlands.Together, CBESS will create a study that spans the landscape scale, investigating how biodiversity stocks provide the following ecosystem services (cf. National Ecosystem Assessment).- Supporting' services: nutrient cycling, healthy habitat - Provisioning services; goods obtained from the landscape- Regulating' services: coastal protection, climate regulation (greenhouse gas exchange, carbon sequestration)- Cultural services: Recreation (walking, canoeing, angling, birding, hunting and beauty)CBESS will combine the detailed study of two regional landscapes with a broad-scale UK-wide study to allow both specific and general conclusions to be drawn. The Regional study will compare two areas of great local and national importance: Morecambe Bay on the west coast and the Essex coastline on the east coast. We will carry out biological and physical surveys at more than 600 stations and use these results to clarify how biodiversity can provide these important ecosystem functions. This information will be shared with those interested in using and managing coastal systems and, after our analysis; we will propose practical methods and improved tools for the future analysis, management, and sustainability of the UK's coastal wetlands.

CBESS总结：英国海岸线的健康与我们作为一个岛国的成功密不可分，并通过我们的经济，我们的娱乐和我们的文化产生共鸣。最紧迫的是，在英国众多多样的景观中，其沿海系统对气候变化最为敏感。随着气温的升高，海平面将上升，陆地和海洋相遇的力量将变得更具破坏性。盐沼、泥滩、海滩和岩石海岸都将受到影响，但在这些地区中，最敏感的是泥滩和盐沼，它们是沿海系统的共同特征，占英国河口总面积的一半以上。这些景观不仅支持各种具有经济价值的动植物物种，而且还作为碳储存，营养循环以及污染物捕获和破坏的场所。因此，保护它们至关重要，需要积极和知情的管理，以便为后代保存它们。自然环境研究理事会呼吁帮助了解这些系统提供的功能（生态系统服务流）与帮助提供这些服务的生物体（生物多样性种群）之间的小规模联系，这提供了一个重要的机会，可以超越这一领域以前在小规模或实验室规模上进行的大多数工作。实验室研究虽然具有基础科学重要性，但其影响可能难以转化为政策，沿海管理者需要更明确的证据基础，以了解生态系统服务流如何在更大的空间尺度上运作，例如整个盐沼或潮间带和盐沼地区。我们提出的“沿海边缘生物多样性和生态系统服务流之间关系的分级方法”（CBESS）将提供这样一个大规模的理解。我们的英国专家联盟包括微生物生态学家，环境经济学家，数学建模者，包括BTO和RSPB等组织，他们对沿海湿地的可持续利用有直接和既得利益。CBESS将共同创建一个跨越景观尺度的研究，调查生物多样性种群如何提供以下生态系统服务（参见国家生态系统评估（National Ecosystem Assessment）支持服务：营养循环，健康的生境.供应服务;从景观中获得的物品.调节服务：海岸保护，气候调节（温室气体交换，碳封存）-文化服务：娱乐（散步，划独木舟，钓鱼，观鸟，狩猎和美容）CBESS将联合收割机结合两个区域景观的详细研究与英国范围内的广泛研究，以便得出具体和一般的结论。该区域研究将比较两个对地方和国家具有重要意义的地区：西海岸的莫雷坎贝湾和东海岸的埃塞克斯海岸线。我们将在600多个站点进行生物和物理调查，并利用这些结果来阐明生物多样性如何提供这些重要的生态系统功能。这些信息将与那些有兴趣使用和管理沿海系统，并在我们的分析，我们将提出切实可行的方法和改进的工具，为未来的分析，管理和英国的沿海湿地的可持续性。

项目成果

Public preferences for multiple dimensions of bird biodiversity at the coast: insights for the cultural ecosystem services framework

公众对沿海鸟类生物多样性多个维度的偏好：对文化生态系统服务框架的见解

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2019.106571
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
• 作者: Boeri M