Using citizen science to estimate surficial soil Blue Carbon stocks in Great British saltmarshes

Smeaton, Craig; Burden, Annette; Ruranska, Paulina; Ladd, Cai; Garbutt, Angus; Jones, Laurence; McMahon, Lucy; Miller, Lucy C.; Skov, Martin W.; N., William E.

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Using citizen science to estimate surficial soil Blue Carbon stocks in Great British saltmarshes

Craig Smeaton, Annette Burden, Paulina Ruranska, Cai Ladd

, Angus Garbutt, Laurence Jones, Lucy McMahon, Lucy C. Miller, Martin W. Skov, William E. N. Austin

Frontiers in Marine Science, Volume: 9

Swansea University Author: Cai Ladd

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A new saltmarsh soil dataset comprising of geochemical and physical property data from 752 soil samples collected through a sampling program supported by citizen scientists has been brought together with existing data to make the first national estimates of the surficial (top 10 cm) soil OC stock fo...

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Using citizen science to estimate surficial soil Blue Carbon stocks in Great British saltmarshes

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