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Using citizen science to estimate surficial soil Blue Carbon stocks in Great British saltmarshes

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Date
11/08/2022
Author
Smeaton, Craig
Burden, Annette
Ruranska, Paulina
Ladd, Cai
Garbutt, Angus
Jones, Laurence
McMahon, Lucy
Miller, Lucy C.
Skov, Martin W.
Austin, William
Funder
NERC
Grant ID
NE/R010846/1
Keywords
Saltmarsh
Carbon
Vegetation
Coastal
Soil
Wetland
Scotland
England
Wales
Organic matter
Citizen science
Spatial mapping
Great Britain
GE Environmental Sciences
QE Geology
DAS
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Abstract
A new saltmarsh soil dataset comprising of geochemical and physical property data from 752 soil samples collected through a sampling program supported by citizen scientists has been brought together with existing data to make the first national estimates of the surficial (top 10 cm) soil OC stock for Great British (GB) saltmarshes. To allow the inclusion of secondary data in the soil stock estimate a new bespoke organic matter to organic carbon conversion for GB saltmarsh soil was developed allowing organic matter data measured using loss-on-ignition to be convert to organic carbon content. The total GB surficial soil OC stock is 2.320 ± 0.470 Mt; English saltmarshes hold 1.601 ± 0.426 Mt OC, Scottish saltmarshes hold 0.368 ± 0.091 Mt OC, and Welsh saltmarshes hold 0.351 ± 0.082 Mt OC. The stocks were calculated within a Markov Chain Monte Carlo framework allowing robust uncertainty estimates to be derived for the first time. Spatial mapping tools are available to accompany these stock estimates at individual saltmarsh habitats throughout GB. This data will aid in the protection and management of saltmarshes and represents the first steps towards the inclusion of saltmarsh OC in the national inventory accounting of blue carbon ecosystems.
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Smeaton , C , Burden , A , Ruranska , P , Ladd , C , Garbutt , A , Jones , L , McMahon , L , Miller , L C , Skov , M W & Austin , W 2022 , ' Using citizen science to estimate surficial soil Blue Carbon stocks in Great British saltmarshes ' , Frontiers in Marine Science , vol. 9 , 959459 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.959459
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Frontiers in Marine Science
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.959459
ISSN
2296-7745
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2022 Smeaton, Burden, Ruranska, Ladd, Garbutt, Jones, McMahon, Miller, Skov and Austin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Funding: This research was finically supported by the Natural Environment Research Council funded Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environments (C-SIDE) project (grant NE/R010846/1) with additional support from the Scottish Blue Carbon Forum.
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URL
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.959459/abstract
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25819

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