REWilding and Restoration of InterTidal sediment Ecosystems for carbon sequestration, climate adaptation and biodiversity support

潮间带沉积物生态系统的荒野化和恢复，以实现碳固存、气候适应和生物多样性支持

• 批准号: 10079691
• 金额: $ 42.47万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF HULL
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10079691
• 关键词: REWilding; Restoration; InterTidal; sediment; Ecosystems

Within European coastal zones, intertidal areas consisting of soft sediment emerging during each low tide, form complex seascapes covering more than 10 000 km2 along the 35 000 km of the tidal coastline. These habitats provide multiple ecosystem services with great potential to cope with the biodiversity-climate crisis by contributing to carbon neutrality, climate resilience and biodiversity support. Nevertheless, these seascapes continue to be fragmented and threatened, resulting in a decrease of their provision of services. Rewilding, a nature-based solution, is a new concept for seascapes to reverse this situation and to “let (again) Nature do the job” ensuring climate resilience, biodiversity support and societal benefit of the future European shoreline. Within a network of 10 demonstrators and 25 partners from 11 European states, including 8 with a tidal coast, plus the UK, Canada and the USA, REWRITE will bring an interdisciplinary consortium of natural and coastal environment and social sciences and humanities experts to address the current ecological and social challenges regarding intertidal seascape rewilding. Expanding innovative approaches, REWRITE will focus on the climate-biodiversity society nexus, to reach 4 specific objectives: -identify environmental, social and cultural drivers and barrier parameters to rewild intertidal sediment seascapes within the context of climate change; -strongly engage stakeholders to achieve a step-change in their appreciation of the natural function of these seascapes and integrate their interests within a co-design of scenario for future European shoreline; - estimate and upscale trajectories of intertidal seascapes from the local to the European level, following rewilding (passive), restoring (active), “business as usual” or “do nothing” options; -establish tools and methods for successful rewilding to ensure a high ecological and societal co-benefit/low-cost ratio for a climate-neutral and resilient European shoreline.

在欧洲沿海地区，潮间带由每次退潮期间出现的软沉积物组成，形成了覆盖超过 10 000 平方公里的复杂海景，沿着 35 000 公里的潮汐海岸线，这些栖息地提供了多种生态系统服务，具有应对生物多样性的巨大潜力。 - 通过促进碳中和、气候复原力和生物多样性支持来应对气候危机 然而，这些海景仍然支离破碎并受到威胁，导致其提供的服务减少。基于自然的解决方案是一个新的海景概念，旨在扭转这种情况，并“让自然（再次）发挥作用”，确保未来欧洲海岸线的气候适应能力、生物多样性支持和社会效益。 REWRITE 的合作伙伴来自 11 个欧洲国家，其中包括 8 个拥有潮汐海岸的国家，此外还有英国、加拿大和美国，REWRITE 将组建一个由自然和沿海环境以及社会科学和人文专家组成的跨学科联盟，以应对当前的生态和社会挑战关于潮间带海洋景观重建，REWRITE 将重点关注气候与生物多样性社会之间的关系，以实现 4 个具体目标： - 确定在气候变化背景下重建潮间带沉积物海景的环境、社会和文化驱动因素和障碍参数；大力吸引利益相关者参与，以实现他们对这些海景自然功能的认识的逐步改变，并将他们的利益纳入未来欧洲海岸线场景的共同设计中；从当地到欧洲层面的潮间带海景轨迹，遵循重新野生化（被动）、恢复（主动）、“一切照旧”或“什么都不做”选项； - 建立成功重新野生化的工具和方法，以确保高度的生态和社会效益；气候中性和有弹性的欧洲海岸线的共同效益/低成本比率。