@book{8d2ae0242bf44edfb16331e31b486614,
title = "The United Kingdom{\textquoteright}s Blue Carbon Inventory: assessment of marine carbon storage and sequestration potential in the English Channel and Western Approaches Region (including within Marine Protected Areas)",
abstract = "This report was commissioned by WWF, The Wildlife Trusts and the RSPB to assess the extent, scale, distribution and potential of the current blue carbon sinks in the English Channel and Western Approaches (ECWA) Region of the UK (including parts of the Celtic Sea). The main objective was to identify the present extent and distribution of habitats, with emphasis on those that are identified as blue carbon habitats. Drawing on a previous project in the English North Sea Region (Burrows et al., 2021), further aims were to evaluate the blue carbon potential of the Region by (1) estimating the quantity of carbon currently stored within these various habitats, (2) establishing the average net sequestration rate (in g C m2/yr) and (3) estimating the potential net total sequestration (in g C/yr) for each blue carbon habitat. The focus of this series of reports has been on stores and accumulations of organic carbon (OC) as particulate material rather than inorganic carbon (IC), given the likely net production of CO2 through the production of IC as shell material. Carbon store densities and rates of production and storage have been combined with measures of habitat area to give estimates of total carbon stored in blue carbon habitats and their associated sediment stores. The results are intended to inform management decisions and identify opportunities to protect blue carbon ecosystems, the habitats they provide and their carbon sequestration potential. Evidence of this nature will contribute to exploration of the potential of the UK{\textquoteright}s marine protected area (MPA) network to help mitigate against the effects of climate change. The extents of blue carbon habitats for the ECWA Region were derived from available open sources, including the EUNIS level 3 combined map from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), Natural England Marine Habitats and Species Open Data, and recently published estimates of OC and IC stores in surface sediments (Smeaton et al., 2021). ",
keywords = "Carbon, Sediment, Seabed, Organic carbon, Inorganic carbon, Saltmarsh, Seagrass, Kelp, Tidalflat, England, English Channel, Western Approaches",
author = "Michael Burrows and Heidi Tillin and Summer Grundy and Craig Smeaton and Austin, {William (Bill)} and Alasdair O'Dell",
note = "Funding: This report was funded by WWF, The Wildlife Trusts and the RSPB.",
year = "2024",
month = sep,
day = "19",
language = "English",
publisher = "Scottish Association for Marine Science",
}