Organic carbon density of surficial soils across Scottish saltmarshes

Dataset

Description

Mapped organic carbon (OC) density of surficial soils across Scottish saltmarsh. The OC density (kg m-2) for the surficial soils (top 10 cm) is mapped across Scottish saltmarshes identified in the Scottish Saltmarsh Survey (Haynes, 2016). Additionally, OC densities have been extrapolated for saltmarsh soils to a depth of 15cm for the purposes of comparison to United Kingdom terrestrial soil carbon inventories.
The spatial maps are built upon surficial (top 10 cm) soil bulk density and carbon data produced by the NERC C-Side project (Ruranska et al., 2020) combined with existing saltmarsh vegetation maps (Haynes, 2016).
Date made available14 Sept 2021
PublisherMarine Scotland Science
Geographical coverageScotland

Keywords

  • carbon
  • salt marsh
  • saltmarsh
  • coastal
  • soil
  • climate
  • stocks
  • stores
  • organic carbon
  • blue carbon

Contact

  • 1 Commissioned report
  • 1 Article

  • Global dataset of soil organic carbon in tidal marshes

    Maxwell, T. L., Rovai, A. S., Adame, M. F., Adams, J. B., Álvarez-Rogel, J., Austin, W., Beasy, K., Boscutti, F., Böttcher, M. E., Bouma, T. J., Bulmer, R. H., Burden, A., Burke, S. A., Camacho, S., Chaudhary, D. R., Chmura, G. L., Copertino, M., Cott, G. M., Craft, C. & Day, J. & 66 others, de los Santos, C. B., Denis, L., Ding, W., Ellison, J. C., Ewers Lewis, C. J., Giani, L., Gispert, M., Gontharet, S., González-Pérez, J. A., González-Alcaraz, M. N., Gorham, C., Graversen, A. E., Grey, A., Guerra, R., He, Q., Holmquist, J. R., Jones, A. R., Juanes, J. A., Kelleher, B. P., Kohfeld, K. E., Krause-Jensen, D., Lafratta, A., Lavery, P. S., Laws, E. A., Leiva-Dueñas, C., Loh, P. S., Lovelock, C. E., Lundquist, C. J., Macreadie, P. I., Mazarrasa, I., Megonigal, J. P., Neto, J. M., Nogueira, J., Osland, M. J., Pagès, J. F., Perera, N., Pfeiffer, E.-M., Pollmann, T., Raw, J. L., Recio, M., Ruiz-Fernández, A. C., Russell, S. K., Rybczyk, J. M., Sammul, M., Sanders, C., Santos, R., Serrano, O., Siewert, M., Smeaton, C., Song, Z., Trasar-Cepeda, C., Twilley, R. R., Van de Broek, M., Vitti, S., Antisari, L. V., Voltz, B., Wails, C. N., Ward, R. D., Ward, M., Wolfe, J., Yang, R., Zubrzycki, S., Landis, E., Smart, L., Spalding, M. & Worthington, T. A., 11 Nov 2023, In: Scientific Data. 10, 14 p., 797.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Blue carbon stock in Scottish saltmarsh soils

    Austin, W., Smeaton, C., Riegel, S., Ruranska, P. & Miller, L., 14 Sept 2021, Marine Scotland. 46 p. (Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science; vol. 12, no. 13)

    Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

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