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At what locations could saltmarsh habitat be managed to protect and enhance coastal flood defences and wider coastal protection?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Evidence needed to progress Aims 3 and 4.
Keywords (discipline, other): Coastal margins
Urban
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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Name: n/a n/a Email Address: Phone: NA
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At what locations could saltmarsh habitat be managed to provide coastal protection?,
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): Locations for managing saltmarsh habitat for coastal protection,”Saltmarsh management, Coastal protection, Habitat restoration, Flood defences”,
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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Can exisiting National Vegetation Classification and other surveys be brought together to map the extent of semi-natural grassland in Wales?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Recent detailed terrestrial survey data are somewhat disperate and some of it needs quality control
Keywords (discipline, other): Semi-natural grassland
Mountains, moorland, and heath
Coastal margins
Enclosed farmland
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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Name: n/a n/a Email Address: Phone: NA
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Can marine habitat creation (e.g. managed realignment, seagrass restoration) deliver effective mitigation for loss of marine and estuarine fish?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Work is required to investigate the effectiveness of creating or restoring coastal or intertidal habitats to deliver mitigation (and/or compensation) for loss of marine/estuarine and freshwater diadromous fish in relation to marine renewable energy developments, e.g. tidal range projects.
Next steps and progress: Collaborative research work underway and awaiting the outcome of a PhD proposal
Keywords (discipline, other): Marine science, marine habitat creation, managed realignment, seagrass restoration, mitigation, loss of marine and estuarine fish, coastal or intertidal habitats, marine/estuarine and freshwater diadromous fish, marine renewable energy developments
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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Can remote sensing be refined to accurately map all the different forms of semi-natural grassland?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Stocks of natural resources is a basic measure of sustainable management of natural resources. Remote sensing has thus far been mostly poor as recording grassland extent, but is continually being refined and becoming more accurate.
Keywords (discipline, other): Semi-natural grassland
Mountains, moorland, and heath
Coastal margins
Enclosed farmland
Ecosystem resilience
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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Name: n/a n/a Email Address: Phone: NA
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Can renewable energy projects have population level effects on mobile species?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Important evidence to balance priorities for provisioning ecosystem services through renewable energy resources with maintaining and enhancing biodiversity, specifically mobile species. To inform our advice to developers.
Keywords (discipline, other): Marine
Energy
Ecosystem resilience
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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Name: n/a n/a Email Address: Phone: NA
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Can we develop a better understanding of eutrophication, specifically the relationship between nutrient inputs, algae growth and undesirable disturbance?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Our understanding of the impacts of nutrients on algae growth and undesirable disturbance is changing. Work by the Environment Agency and CEFAS is indicating nutrient ratios are important in determining community structure of phytoplankton which could have impacts on food webs. This project would look at the impact changing nutrient concentrations has on algae growth and community structure, with an aim of looking at impacts to food webs in Welsh waters. Next steps and progress: Likely to be contracted out after scoping.
Keywords (discipline, other): Eutrophication, Nutrient inputs, Algae growth, Undesirable disturbance, Phytoplankton, Food webs, Wales, Environmental impact, External funding
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
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Can we meet the food requirement of a growing population without damaging the environment?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
To help inform future sustainable land management pratices
Keywords (discipline, other): Land use, population science, environmental damage, agriculture, sustainable land management
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: No External Partner: Yes Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
Contact Details
Name: Email Address: Phone: NA
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Can we produce improved maps of Annex I subtidal habitat, primarily Reef and Sandbank, using data currently available?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Multibeam data from third parties is available that would improve our evidence and maps of Annex I habitats and broad-scale habitats
Keywords (discipline, other): Marine
Ecosystem resilience
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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Name: n/a n/a Email Address: Phone: NA
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Can we use eDNA analysis of dredge vessel hopper water to identify presence of Invasive Non-Native Species?,
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): Using eDNA to identify invasive non-native species in dredge vessel hopper water,”eDNA, Invasive species, Dredge vessels, Marine habitats, Species detection”,
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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