Restoration of Seagrass for Ocean Wealth UK (ReSOW UK)

英国海洋财富海草恢复 (ReSOW UK)

• 批准号: NE/V016024/1
• 负责人: Danny Campbell
• 金额: $ 8.45万
• 依托单位: University of Stirling
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FV016024%2F1
• 关键词: Restoration; Seagrass; Ocean; Wealth; UK

The UK Government has recognised the need for Nature Based Solutions to climate change to form a significant component of the UKs target of reaching Net Zero emissions by 2050. Seagrass meadows create a highly efficient and long-term store of carbon in their marine sediments, providing an opportunity for their restoration to become a key contributor to these solutions. Moreover, in a time of changing management of our UK fisheries, the restoration and recovery of the nation's seagrass meadows provides an opportunity to improve support for fisheries productivity through enhanced fish nursery habitat for important species, such as the Atlantic Cod.These powerhouses of our coastal seas have been a neglected ecosystem for decades and centuries, which has led to their large-scale degradation and loss. In the context of generally improving long-term water quality and improved management of our coastal seas, this loss of seagrass now provides an opportunity for environmental renewal through large-scale restoration. In the US, large scale seagrass restoration has resulted in such ecological renewal, stimulating fisheries production and creating efficient and extensive carbon sinks. The restoration of seagrass in the UK remains in its infancy; however, significant steps forward have already been made by the partners in project ReSOW. UK government regulators and nature agencies recognise that an evidence base and strategic vision are needed to make the case of restoration in order to improve stakeholder support, leverage financial backing and ultimately lead to the ecological renewal of seagrass meadows to meet our national biodiversity and climate goals, whilst supporting our economy.The ReSOW UK project will provide this evidence and strategic vision for ecological renewal, underpinned by excellent science. The project will facilitate informed management andrestoration of seagrass for sustainable social, environmental and economic net gains for the UK. ReSOW UK brings together principal scientists, political bodies and NGOs concerned with seagrass management and restoration in the UK, and augments their expertise within a transdisciplinary research team encompassing social science, environmental governance, Earth observation and spatial analysis, social-ecological modelling, and natural capital accounting.The project has been developed in collaboration with UK and devolved government agencies, together with NGOs and academic scientists at the coalface of seagrass restoration and management. Where possible and appropriate, we will re-propose and maximise existing data on the benefits that seagrasses provide to people and planet and their conservation management. The project will collect targeted ecological, remote satellite and socio-economic data to fill gaps in our understanding. Field measurements and information extracted from existing databases will be used to build a computer model and decision support tool which will identify where and how to undertake seagrass restoration with maximum benefit and chance of success.Our approach of working with people and key stakeholders in order to progress novel science and conservation reflects our trans-disciplinary experience and expertise as a research consortium. This will facilitate the development of applied online tools to enable the integration of seagrass into sustainable marine management along with the creation of novel science. ReSOW UK will promote long-term recovery and enhancement of the natural environment, whilst helping to mitigate climate change, improving sustainable commercial activity and promoting social welfare.

英国政府已经认识到，需要基于自然的解决方案来应对气候变化，这是英国到2050年实现净零排放目标的重要组成部分。海草草甸在其海洋沉积物中创造了高效和长期的碳储存，为它们的恢复提供了机会，成为这些解决方案的关键贡献者。此外，在改变我们英国渔业管理的时候，国家的海草草甸的恢复和恢复提供了一个机会，通过增强鱼类育苗栖息地的重要物种，如大西洋鳕鱼，我们的沿海海洋的这些发电站一直是一个被忽视的生态系统几十年和几个世纪，这导致了他们的大规模退化和损失，以提高渔业生产力的支持。在普遍改善长期水质和改进沿海管理的背景下，海草的损失现在为通过大规模恢复恢复环境提供了一个机会。在美国，大规模的海草恢复导致了这种生态更新，刺激了渔业生产，创造了有效和广泛的碳汇。联合王国的海草恢复工作仍处于起步阶段;然而，ReSOW项目的合作伙伴已经取得了重大进展。英国政府监管机构和自然机构认识到，需要证据基础和战略愿景来证明恢复的必要性，以提高利益相关者的支持，利用财政支持，并最终导致海草草甸的生态更新，以满足我们国家的生物多样性和气候目标，同时支持我们的经济。ReSOW UK项目将为生态更新提供证据和战略愿景，以优秀的科学为基础。该项目将促进对海草的知情管理和恢复，为英国带来可持续的社会、环境和经济净收益。ReSOW UK汇集了英国与海草管理和恢复有关的主要科学家，政治团体和非政府组织，并在一个跨学科的研究团队中增强他们的专业知识，该团队包括社会科学，环境治理，地球观测和空间分析，社会生态建模和自然资本核算。该项目是与英国和下放的政府机构合作开发的，与非政府组织和学术界科学家一起，在海草恢复和管理的采煤工作面。在可能和适当的情况下，我们将重新提出并最大限度地利用关于海草为人类和地球及其保护管理提供的益处的现有数据。该项目将收集有针对性的生态、遥感卫星和社会经济数据，以填补我们认识上的空白。从现有数据库中提取的实地测量数据和信息将用于建立计算机模型和决策支持工具，该工具将确定在何处以及如何进行海草恢复，以获得最大的效益和成功机会。我们与人们和主要利益相关者合作的方法，以推进新的科学和保护，反映了我们作为研究联盟的跨学科经验和专业知识。这将有助于开发实用的在线工具，以便能够将海草纳入可持续海洋管理，同时沿着创新科学。ReSOW UK将促进自然环境的长期恢复和改善，同时帮助缓解气候变化，改善可持续商业活动并促进社会福利。