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What is the trend in airborne insect abundance and diversity in urban areas compared to in the wider landscape?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Insect abundance in the wider landscape has declined drastically. Comparing insect abundance in urban areas will indicate if urban areas are being managed more, or less sustainably than the wider landscape. This could help develop hypotheses to test why declines are happening, and how to arrest them. Focussing on insects as this is currently lacking.
Keywords (discipline, other): Urban
Biodiversity
Climate change
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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What is the trend in distribution and impact of invasive non-native species of priority to Wales?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
This would establish if any trend in terms of the impact on ecosystems, their resilience and the ecosystem services they provide could be derived from the distribution data and the information we have about impacts.
Keywords (discipline, other): Invasive non-native species
Woodland
Marine
Mountains, moorland, and heath
Freshwater
Coastal margins
Urban
Semi-natural grassland
Enclosed farmland
Land use and soil
Ecosystem resilience
Climate change
Biodiversity
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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What is the trend in the quantity of organic fertiliser, manure and slurry, being spread on grassland? If an increase has occurred, which farming systems are responsible for this?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
There is some evidence that rates of nutrient inputs from animal waste are increasing. We wish to quantify this and pinpoint the main contributors. Increased nutrient levels would have a further detrimental impact on air and water quality as well as biodiversity.
Keywords (discipline, other): Enclosed farmland
Freshwater
Land use and soil
Air quality
Waste
Ecosystem resilience
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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What is the value of citizen science and community action in the control of invasive non-native species?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Restoration of freshwater ecosystems is key to improving their resilience to multiple pressures and addressing the climate and nature emergencies. Knowledge and tools are required to facilitate sucessful and cost effective ecosystem restoration.
Keywords (discipline, other): Freshwater
Invasive non-native species
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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What is the value of Good Ecological Status (GES) under the Water Framework Directive (WFD)?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
We need to determine the monetary value on GES for the cost-benefit analysis which is part of the WFD derogations. This would include developing methods to carry out this analysis.
Next steps and progress: Likely to be contracted out
Keywords (discipline, other): Economics, Good Ecological Status, GES, Water Framework Directive, WFD, monetary value, cost-benefit analysis
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/marine-biodiversity-collaborative-research-priorities/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: Yes External Partner: Yes Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
Contact Details
Name: Dr Kirsten Ramsay Email Address: kirsten.ramsay@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk Phone: NA
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What is the viability and applicability of carbon capture techniques such as enhanced weathering to land in Wales?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
To assess options for enhancing and accelerating through using natural processes the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Keywords (discipline, other): Land use and soil
Climate change
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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What is the Wales-wide carbon footprint?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
To improve the assessment of Wales’s ecological and carbon footprint
Keywords (discipline, other): Regenerative economy
Stocks of natural resources
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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What makes up the diet of marine mammals in Wales and adjacent waters?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Knowledge of diet in marine mammals in Wales is minimal and/or dated. There is no stomach content samples from bottlenose dolphins in Wales but a proposed project to biopsy dolphins will allow forensic techniques to examine diet (stable isotope analysis). There is stomach content information from stranded and bycaught harbour porpoise but data is not analysed. Grey seal diet work in Wales is from a single report from 1996 in Pembrokeshire (Strong 1996) and requires updating. Diet is an important descriptor of prey changes in the ecosystem. As diet is intricately linked to habitat, knowledge of diet will inform our assessments of the condition of marine mammal habitats. This project will primarily involve desk based collation of existing data.
Keywords (discipline, other): Marine, mammals
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/marine-biodiversity-collaborative-research-priorities/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: No External Partner: Yes Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
Contact Details
Name: Kirsten Ramsay Email Address: marinecoastalevidence@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk Phone: NA
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What makes up the diet of marine mammals in Wales and adjacent waters?,
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
For more, and updated information, please visit https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/marine-biodiversity-collaborative-research-priorities/?lang=en
Keywords (discipline, other): Seals’ diet in Welsh waters,”Seals, Diet, Welsh waters, Marine mammals, Prey species”,
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/marine-biodiversity-collaborative-research-priorities/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: Yes External Partner: Yes Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
Contact Details
Name: Email Address: marinecoastalevidence@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk Phone: NA
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What makes up the diet of seabird species in Welsh waters?,
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Monitoring of seabird diet is already in place at some colonies around the Welsh coast but could be expanded to other areas, especially where the colonies are easily accessed. This project will involve practical research work to investigate the prey species being returned to colonies. Species of particular interest would include shags, cormorants and puffins.
For more, and updated information, please visit https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/marine-biodiversity-collaborative-research-priorities/?lang=en
Keywords (discipline, other): Seabirds, Diet, Welsh waters, Marine ecosystem, Prey species, birds
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/marine-biodiversity-collaborative-research-priorities/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: Yes External Partner: Yes Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
Contact Details
Name: Dr Kirsten Ramsay Email Address: marinecoastalevidence@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk Phone: NA
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