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Monitoring

Marine Scotland Science (MSS) undertakes a wide range of monitoring covering many aspects of the Scottish marine ecosystem.

Monitoring is undertaken in Scottish Inshore Waters, using networks of volunteers and automatic recording equipment, as well as in Scottish Offshore Waters, using the MSS research vessels MRV Alba na Mara and MRV Scotia.

Marine Scotland Science also participates national monitoring programmes, such as:

  • UK Marine Monitoring and Assessment Strategy (UKMMAS)
  • UK Marine Environmental Change Network (MECN)
  • UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN)

This group provides published data from monitoring these activities. For many activities, there are national or international standards for how the monitoring is undertaken.

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Blue carbon stock in Scottish saltmarsh soils

Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 12 No 13

In this study, we provide an estimate of the quantity of organic carbon (OC) held within the surficial soils (top 10 cm and 15 cm) of Scotland’s extensive saltmarsh habitats. This work builds upon the Scottish Saltmarsh Survey (Haynes, 2016) by integrating the mapped extent of saltmarsh vegetation types with field-derived measurements of soil dry bulk density and OC obtained from a diverse range of saltmarsh soils across Scotland (Ruranska et al., 2020). This approach has enabled a new surficial OC stock estimation to be made for the soils within Scotland’s saltmarshes.

doi: 
10.7489/12372-1
Citation: 
Austin, W.; Smeaton, C.; Riegel, S.; Ruranska, P. & Miller, L. 2021. Blue carbon stock in Scottish saltmarsh soils. Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 12 No 13, 37pp. DOI: 10.7489/12372-1
saltmarsh
soil science
blue carbon
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Publisher
Monitoring
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Reports
Modified
2021-09-14
Release Date
2021-09-13
Identifier
0438e621-415e-4ed9-9156-f11d103f4146
License
UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Public Access Level
Public