Smeaton, C. et al

Spatial mapping of surficial soil organic carbon storage and stocks across Great British saltmarshes

https://doi.org/10.5285/cb8840f2-c630-4a86-9bba-d0e070d56f04 Cite this dataset
The geospatial dataset maps organic carbon (OC) storage (kg OC m-2) and OC stocks (tonnes OC) of surficial soils across 438 Great British saltmarshes. The OC density for the surficial soils (top 10 cm) is mapped across 451.65 km2 of saltmarshes, identified from current saltmarsh maps of Great Britain’s three constituent countries; Scotland, England and Wales The spatial maps are built upon surficial (top 10 cm) soil bulk density and carbon data produced by the NERC C-Side project and Marine Scotland data combined with existing saltmarsh vegetation maps.

The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1.
Publication date: 2022-07-07

Format

Shapefile

Where/When

Study area
Temporal extent
2018-01-01    to    2020-12-31

Provenance & quality

OC storage (kg OC m2) were calculated for each class of saltmarsh vegetation and marsh zone found in Great Britain using the OC content (% wt.) and dry bulk density (kg m-3) for saltmarsh soils were provide by the NERC C-Side project and Marine Scotland data. This data resource contains maps OC densities across 438 Great British saltmarshes. The mean OC storage of each NVC class/marsh zone was combined with the saltmarsh mapping of English, Scottish and Welsh saltmarshes to produce a bespoke GIS layers mapping the OC storage across Great British saltmarsh soils to a depth of 10 cm. Results were exported as shapefiles (.shp) for ingestion into the EIDC.

Citations

Smeaton, C., Burden, A., Ruranska, P., Ladd, C.J.T., Garbutt, A., Jones, L., McMahon, L., Miller, L.C., Skov, M.W., & Austin, W.E.N. (2022). Using citizen science to estimate surficial soil Blue Carbon stocks in Great British saltmarshes. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.959459

Supplemental information

https://www.c-side.org/

Correspondence/contact details

Smeaton, C.
University of Saint Andrews
 cs244@st-andrews.ac.uk

Authors

Smeaton, C.
University of Saint Andrews
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4535-2555
Burden, A.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7694-1638
Ruranska, P.
University of Saint Andrews
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6246-0203
Ladd, C.J.T.
University of Glasgow
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-6474
Garbutt, A.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9145-9786
Jones, L.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4379-9006
McMahon, L.
University of York
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0199-7108
Miller, L.C.
University of Saint Andrews
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2876-4312
Norris, D.A.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8298-555X
Skov, M.W.
Bangor University
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7204-3865
Austin, W.E.N.
University of Saint Andrews
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6544-3468

Other contacts

Rights holder
The University Court of the University of St Andrews
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
Geoscientific Information
Keywords
blue carbon,  carbon,  coastal,  cores,  C-SIDE,  dry bulk density,  England,  intertidal,  organic carbon,  organic matter,  saltmarsh,  salt marsh,  Scotland,  sediment,  soil,  stock,  storage,  substrate,  United Kingdom,  Wales,  wetland
INSPIRE Theme
Habitats and Biotopes
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/R010846/1
Spatial representation type
Vector
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Last updated
27 April 2023 09:39

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CITE AS: Smeaton, C.; Burden, A.; Ruranska, P.; Ladd, C.J.T.; Garbutt, A.; Jones, L.; McMahon, L.; Miller, L.C. ; Norris, D.A. ; Skov, M.W. ; Austin, W.E.N. (2022). Spatial mapping of surficial soil organic carbon storage and stocks across Great British saltmarshes. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/cb8840f2-c630-4a86-9bba-d0e070d56f04