Blue carbon stock in Scottish saltmarsh soils

William Austin; Craig Smeaton; Simone Riegel; Paulina Ruranska; Lucy Miller

doi:10.7489/12372-1

Blue carbon stock in Scottish saltmarsh soils

William Austin, Craig Smeaton, Simone Riegel, Paulina Ruranska, Lucy Miller

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Publisher	Marine Scotland
Commissioning body	MARINE SCOTLAND
Number of pages	46
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7489/12372-1
Publication status	Published - 14 Sept 2021

Publication series

Name	Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science
Publisher	Marine Scotland
No.	13
Volume	12
ISSN (Electronic)	2043-7722

Keywords

Carbon
Saltmarsh
Soil
Scotland
Blue carbon
Coastal
Organic carbon
Stocks
Stores

UN SDGs

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

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Blue carbon stock in Scottish saltmarsh soils

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Carbon storage in Intertidal Env: Carbon storage in intertidal environments (C-SIDE)

Global positioning system (GPS) locations and elevations of soil sampling sites across UK saltmarshes 2018 to 2021

Dry bulk density, loss on ignition and organic carbon content of surficial soils from Scottish salt marshes, 2018-2019

Organic carbon density of surficial soils across Scottish saltmarshes

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Blue carbon stock in Scottish saltmarsh soils

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Carbon storage in Intertidal Env: Carbon storage in intertidal environments (C-SIDE)

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Global positioning system (GPS) locations and elevations of soil sampling sites across UK saltmarshes 2018 to 2021

Dry bulk density, loss on ignition and organic carbon content of surficial soils from Scottish salt marshes, 2018-2019

Organic carbon density of surficial soils across Scottish saltmarshes

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