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Underpinning marine spatial planning of Blue Carbon resources; Orkney Islands Catchment Audit case study

支持蓝碳资源的海洋空间规划；

基本信息

批准号：
2337736
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
Heriot-Watt University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2337736
关键词：
Underpinning marine spatial planning Blue

项目摘要

Orkney Islands is a useful location on which to base a Blue Carbon planning project pilot because it has a variety of Blue Carbon habitats occurring in a discrete area. Some of the habitats are well documented, for others the boundaries are less clear. Habitats include Kelp forests, Maerl beds, Horse Mussel beds, Flame Shell beds, Seagrass meadows, Brittlestar beds and Bryozoan thickets. A recent MASTS funded case study project, allowed a series of workshops to take place, where stakeholders from Orkney and beyond were able to identify key knowledge gaps and opportunities on the topics of Blue Carbon, which may be significant for evidence based future management planning. Some of the gaps identified, were overlapping with interests from the local Marine Planning Team and from Orkney Islands Council interests via the Biodiversity Action Plan. New resources now becoming available from Marine Scotland Science through Scotland Shelf Model and sub domain models, along with outputs from the EPSRC funded ECOWATT 2050 programme mean that some of the identified knowledge gaps could now be addressed to complete an Orkney Islands Blue Carbon Audit as a pilot for Scottish waters. Significant knowledge gaps include understanding of the fluxes of certain Blue Carbon habitat types. Also the amount of carbon stored in specific but understudied blue carbon habitat types is still not clear, as well as underestimates of some habitats where further field study is needed. Examples include Horse mussel reef depth, maerl reef depth, Flame shell bed depth, Brittlestar bed carbon content and extent, seagrass meadow fluxes, Bryozoan thicket carbon content and flux to name a few. In this project we propose to develop a Carbon Audit for Orkney and Scapa Flow waters, alongside the Orkney Islands Council Marine Planning Team who are developing the regional marine plan. Part of the work will involve developing the approach to the audit using tools from the ECOWATT 2050 project to build an ecosystem model and the other part of the project will involve fieldwork to fill in some of the data gaps in knowledge regarding the specific blue carbon habitats. The Orkney Islands positioned with the Living Laboratory of Scapa Flow provide the ideal location to tackle this first regional Blue Carbon Audit. We envisage that the project can benefit from and build upon outputs from the recent tender opportunity from Scottish Government on a similar topic area. Other external PhD advisors contributing to this project are Mary Spencer Jones (Natural History Museum London) and Dr Gareth Davies (Aquatera Ltd). They will provide access to specialist facilities for carbon analysis and mapping (respectively).

奥克尼群岛是蓝碳规划项目试点的一个有用的地点，因为它有各种各样的蓝碳栖息地出现在一个离散的地区。其中一些栖息地有很好的记录，而另一些栖息地的边界不太清楚。栖息地包括海带森林、梅尔床、马贻贝床、火贝壳床、海草草甸、布列特尔斯塔床和苔藓动物灌木丛。最近由MANSTS资助的一个案例研究项目允许举办一系列研讨会，来自奥克尼和其他地方的利益相关者能够确定关于蓝碳主题的关键知识差距和机会，这可能对基于证据的未来管理规划具有重要意义。查明的一些差距与当地海洋规划小组的利益和奥克尼群岛理事会通过生物多样性行动计划的利益相重叠。苏格兰海洋科学现在可以通过苏格兰陆架模型和子域模型获得新的资源，再加上EPSRC资助的EcoWatt 2050计划的结果，意味着现在可以弥补一些已发现的知识差距，以完成奥克尼群岛蓝碳审计，作为苏格兰水域的试点。重大的知识差距包括对某些蓝碳生境类型的通量的了解。此外，在特定但研究不足的蓝碳生境类型中储存的碳量仍然不清楚，以及对一些需要进一步实地研究的生境的低估。例如，马贻贝礁深度、主礁深度、火焰贝壳床深度、脆性贝壳床碳含量和范围、海草草甸通量、苔藓动物灌丛碳含量和通量等等。在这个项目中，我们建议与正在制定区域海洋计划的奥克尼群岛议会海洋规划小组一起，为奥克尼和斯卡帕流动水域制定碳审计。部分工作将涉及使用EcoWatt 2050项目的工具制定审计方法，以建立生态系统模型，而该项目的另一部分将涉及实地工作，以填补有关特定蓝碳生境的知识中的一些数据空白。奥克尼群岛与Scapa Flow的生活实验室一起，为解决第一个地区性蓝碳审计提供了理想的位置。我们预计，该项目可以受益于苏格兰政府最近在类似主题领域的招标机会，并在此基础上再接再厉。其他为该项目做出贡献的外部博士顾问是伦敦自然历史博物馆的玛丽·斯宾塞·琼斯和Aquatera有限公司的加雷斯·戴维斯博士。它们将分别提供碳分析和测绘方面的专业设施。