Carbon storage in intertidal environments (C-SIDE)

Research output

Research output per year 2019 2022 2023 2024 2024

• 12 Article
• 1 Commissioned report
• 1 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
• 1 Review article

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2024

  Additionality in blue carbon ecosystems: recommendations for a universally applicable accounting methodology

  Houston, A., Kennedy, H. & Austin, W., 4 Nov 2024, In: Global Change Biology. 30, 11, 9 p., e17559.

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

  Open Access

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  • Discounting 100%
  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions 100%
  • Blue Carbon 100%
  • Organic Carbon 57%
  • Climate Change 50%

• Organic carbon accumulation in British saltmarshes

  Smeaton, C., Garrett, E., Koot, M., Ladd, C., Miller, L., McMahon, L., Foster, B., Barlow, N., Blake, W., Gehrels, R., Skov, M. & Austin, W., 3 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Science of the Total Environment. 926, 12 p.

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

  Open Access

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  • Salt Marsh 100%
  • Organic Carbon 100%
  • United Kingdom 45%
  • Coastal Ecosystem 18%
  • Sedimentation Rate 9%

• Saltmarsh blue carbon accumulation rates and their relationship with sea-level rise on a multi-decadal timescale in northern England

  Gore, C., Gehrels , R., Smeaton, C., Andrews, L., McMahon, L., Hibbert, F., Austin, W., Nolte, S. & Garrett, E., Apr 2024, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 299, 11 p., 108665.

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

  Open Access

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  • Salt Marsh 100%
  • Accumulation Rate 100%
  • Sea Level Rise 100%
  • England 100%
  • Blue Carbon 100%

• Saltmarshes do store carbon, but their climate impact may have been overestimated

  Smeaton, C. & Garrett, E., 23 May 2024, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  Open Access

• UAV approaches for improved mapping of vegetation cover and estimation of carbon storage of small saltmarshes examples from Loch Fleet, northeast Scotland

  Hiles, W., Miller, L., Smeaton, C. & Austin, W., 20 Feb 2024, In: Biogeosciences. 21, 4, p. 928-948 20 p.

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

  Open Access

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  • Scotland 100%
  • Salt Marsh 100%
  • Carbon Sequestration 100%
  • Ground Cover 100%
  • Organic Carbon 16%

• 2023

  Carbon accumulation and storage across contrasting saltmarshes of Scotland

  Miller, L., Smeaton, C., Yang, H. & Austin, W., 5 Mar 2023, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 282, 15 p., 108223.

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

  Open Access

  File

  • Scotland 100%
  • Salt Marsh 100%
  • Organic Carbon 100%
  • Earth Science 7%
  • Accumulation Rate 7%

• 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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  • Soil Organic Carbon 100%
  • Soil Organic Matter 25%
  • Bulk Density 12%
  • Soil Depth 12%
  • Climate Change Mitigation 12%

• Organic carbon stocks of Great British saltmarshes

  Smeaton, C., Ladd, C., Miller, L., McMahon, L., Garrett, E., Barlow, N., Gehrels, W. R., Skov, M. W. & Austin, W., 4 Dec 2023, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 10, 18 p.

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

  Open Access

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  • Salt Marsh 100%
  • Organic Carbon 100%
  • United Kingdom 44%
  • Blue Carbon 22%
  • United States of America 11%

• 2022

  Best practice for upscaling soil organic carbon stocks in salt marshes  

  Ladd, C., Smeaton, C., Skov, M. & Austin, W., 15 Dec 2022, In: Geoderma. 428, 15 p., 116188.

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

  Open Access

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  • Salt Marsh 100%
  • Soil Organic Carbon 100%
  • Upscaling 100%
  • Global Warming 100%
  • Machine Learning Algorithm 100%

• Carbon storage in UK intertidal environments

  Austin, W. E. N., Smeaton, C., Ruranska, P., Paterson, D. M., Skov, M. W., Ladd, C. J. T., McMahon, L., Havelock, G. M., Gehrels, R., Mills, R., Barlow, N. L. M., Burden, A., Jones, L. & Garbutt, A., 7 Mar 2022, Challenges in estuarine and coastal science. Humphreys, J. & Little, S. (eds.). Exeter: Pelagic Publishing, 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • United Kingdom 100%
  • Carbon Sequestration 100%
  • Intertidal Zone 100%
  • Salt Marsh 80%
  • Stock Assessment 40%

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

  Smeaton, C., Burden, A., Ruranska, P., Ladd, C., Garbutt, A., Jones, L., McMahon, L., Miller, L. C., Skov, M. W. & Austin, W., 11 Aug 2022, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 9, 16 p., 959459.

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

  Open Access

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  • Carbon Sink 100%
  • Salt Marsh 100%
  • Citizen Science 100%
  • Blue Carbon 100%
  • Organic Matter 20%

• 2021

  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

  Open Access

  File

  • Salt Marsh 100%
  • Blue Carbon 100%
  • Organic Carbon 100%
  • Scotland 50%
  • Bulk Density 16%

• 2020

  Coring and compaction: best practice in blue carbon stock and burial estimations

  Smeaton, C., Barlow, N. & Austin, W., 1 Apr 2020, In: Geoderma. 364, C, 114180.

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

  Open Access

  File

  • Bulk Density 100%
  • Accumulation Rate 100%
  • Blue Carbon 100%
  • Salt Marsh 50%
  • Soil Profile 50%

• Impacts of climate change on coastal habitats, relevant to the coastal and marine environment around the UK

  Burden, A., Smeaton, C., Angus, S., Garbutt, A., Jones, L., Lewis, H. & Rees, S., 15 Jan 2020, In: MCCIP Science Review 2020. p. 228-255 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Climate Change 100%
  • United Kingdom 100%
  • Marine Environment 100%
  • Coastal Environment 100%
  • Coastal Erosion 50%

• 2019

  An assessment of the tea bag index method as a proxy for organic matter decomposition in intertidal environments

  Marley, A., Smeaton, C. & Austin, W. E. N., 16 Oct 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences. Early View, 14 p.

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

  Open Access

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  • Intertidal Zone 100%
  • Organic Matter 100%
  • Salt Marsh 42%
  • Decomposition of Organic Matter 14%
  • Cellulose Decomposition 14%