Restoration of Seagrass for Ocean Wealth UK (ReSOW UK)

英国政府已经认识到，需要以自然为基础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，在英国渔业管理不断变化的时期，国家海草草甸的恢复和恢复提供了一个机会，通过加强重要物种的鱼类苗圃栖息地，如大西洋鳕鱼，来提高对渔业生产力的支持。几十年和几个世纪以来，这些沿海海洋的动力源泉一直是一个被忽视的生态系统，这导致了它们的大规模退化和丧失。在普遍改善长期水质和改善沿海海洋管理的背景下，海草的减少现在为通过大规模恢复提供了一个环境更新的机会。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。英国的海草恢复仍处于起步阶段；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，为了提高利益相关者的支持，利用财政支持，最终实现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，需要一个证据基础和战略愿景。ReSOW英国项目将为生态更新提供证据和战略愿景，并以优秀的科学为基础。该项目将促进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汇集了英国关注海草管理和恢复的主要科学家，政治机构和非政府组织，并在一个跨学科的研究团队中增加了他们的专业知识，包括社会科学，环境治理，地球观测和空间分析，社会生态模型和自然资本核算。该项目是与英国和地方政府机构，以及海草恢复和管理的非政府组织和学术科学家合作开发的。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有关海草对人类和地球及其保护管理的益处的现有数据。该项目将收集有针对性的生态、远程卫星和社会经济数据，以填补我们认识上的空白。实地测量和从现有数据库中提取的信息将用于建立一个计算机模型和决策支持工具，以确定在何处和如何进行海草恢复，以获得最大的利益和成功的机会。我们与人们和主要利益相关者合作，以推进新科学和保护的方法反映了我们作为一个研究联盟的跨学科经验和专业知识。这将促进应用在线工具的发展，从而将海草纳入可持续海洋管理，同时创造新科学。ReSOW UK将促进自然环境的长期恢复和改善，同时帮助减缓气候变化，改善可持续的商业活动，促进社会福利。

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.