REWilding and Restoration of InterTidal sediment Ecosystems for carbon sequestration, climate adaptation and biodiversity support

在欧洲沿海地区，潮间带由每次退潮时出现的软沉积物组成，形成复杂的海洋景观，沿着35000公里的潮汐海岸线覆盖超过10000平方公里。这些栖息地提供多种生态系统服务，通过促进碳中和、气候适应能力和生物多样性支持，具有应对生物多样性-气候危机的巨大潜力。然而，这些海景继续支离破碎和受到威胁，导致其提供的服务减少。野生化是一种基于自然的解决方案，是一种新的海景概念，旨在扭转这种局面，“让（再次）自然完成工作”，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。在一个由来自11个欧洲国家（包括8个有潮汐海岸的国家）的10个示范机构和25个合作伙伴组成的网络中，再加上英国、加拿大和美国，REWRITE将带来一个由自然和沿海环境、社会科学和人文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。REWRITE将扩展创新方法，重点关注气候-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恢复野生潮间带沉积物海景的环境、社会和文化驱动因素和屏障参数；-强烈吸引利益相关者，以实现他们对这些海景自然功能的欣赏的逐步改变，并将他们的利益整合到未来欧洲海岸线的共同设计方案中；-从当地到欧洲的潮间带海景的估计和高档轨迹，包括重新野生化（被动）、恢复（主动）、“一切照旧”或“什么都不做”等选项；-建立工具和方法，成功地恢复野生动物，以确保高生态和社会的共同效益/低成本比率，为气候中和和有弹性的欧洲海岸线。

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.