Work Package 4: Establishment of long-term monitoring site and assessment of threats

Objectives:

• Carry out a detailed evaluation of future threats in Irish BC habitats

• Establish a long-term saltmarsh and seagrass monitoring site

• Monitor geospatial parameters, elevation change and biodiversity at this field site over 4 years

• Establish passive warming manipulation experiment to test the effect of elevated temperatures on complex interactions between plant productivity and soil C

• Incorporate this monitoring site into the International MarineGeo network

Tasks:

• Assessment of emerging threats

• Long-term site selection

• Tracking geospatial parameters and biodiversity monitoring

• Climate change responses - passive warming manipulation experiment 

• Integration into MarineGeo network

• Targeting funding for the continuation of the long-term field site and C financing mechanisms

• Data curation, QA/QC, working with the Coastal Carbon Research Coordination Network

Deliverables:

• Review on future threats in BC habitats in Ireland

• Through cooperation with NPWS long-term field site established

• Dataset on geospatial, biodiversity and elevation changes over 4 years

• Dataset on passive warming responses in BC habitats in Ireland

• Long-term site embedded into MarineGeo Network

• Funding secured to support the long-term field site