Assessment of blue carbon resources in Scotland’s Inshore Marine Protected Area Network: Commissioned Report No. 957

Micheal Burrows; David Hughes; W. E. N. Austin; Craig Smeaton; Natalie  Hicks; John Howe; Christopher Allen; Peter Taylor; Lindsay Vare

Assessment of blue carbon resources in Scotland’s Inshore Marine Protected Area Network: Commissioned Report No. 957

Micheal Burrows, David Hughes, W. E. N. Austin, Craig Smeaton, Natalie Hicks , John Howe, Christopher Allen, Peter Taylor, Lindsay Vare

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Abstract

In this study, the blue carbon resources in each Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area (NC MPA) and Special Area of Conservation (SAC) in Scotland’s inshore waters are estimated from the i) contributions of biological material to fixation of carbon, also referred to as production, and ii) contributions of geological sediments to blue carbon storage, following on from shelf-wide estimates in an earlier study (Burrows et al., 2014). The methodology has been developed here to allow local-scale estimation of habitat extent and provides estimates of blue carbon associated with habitats and surface sediments.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Inverness
Publisher	Scottish Natural Heritage
Commissioning body	Scottish Natural Heritage
Number of pages	283
Volume	957
ISBN (Electronic)	978-17831-430-2
ISBN (Print)	978-17831-430-2
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Blue carbon
Inorganic carbon
Organic carbon
Storage
Sequestration
Stocks

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Burrows, M., Hughes, D., Austin, W. E. N., Smeaton, C., Hicks , N., Howe, J., Allen, C., Taylor, P., & Vare, L. (2017). Assessment of blue carbon resources in Scotland’s Inshore Marine Protected Area Network: Commissioned Report No. 957. Scottish Natural Heritage. https://www.nature.scot/snh-commissioned-report-957-assessment-blue-carbon-resources-scotlands-inshore-marine-protected-area

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Assessment of blue carbon resources in Scotland’s Inshore Marine Protected Area Network: Commissioned Report No. 957

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