Connecting Estuarine, Coastal and Transitional Restoration Special Interest Group (ConnECTER SIG)
The main purpose of the ConnECTER SIG is to better connect the community of academic organisations and research scientists (national and international) to the practical implementation of estuarine and coastal habitat restoration.
The group promotes and facilitates scientific research that improves understanding of habitat and ecosystem restoration and Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in the UK. International research and practical examples relating to this scope are also used to inform discussion.
The outputs and outreach of the SIG align connectivity, ecosystem restoration and the associated scientific questions, with policy drivers, politicians and decision makers and funding sources, to help the SIG provide influence. There is a particular focus on: ecosystem restoration at the landscape and seascape scale, how such activities should be implemented to maximise positive and minimise negative impacts, as well as the potential additional benefits associated with these approaches, such as improved habitat connectivity and complementary habitat functionality.
Latest research news
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Publication of the IUCN Ecosystem Red listing assessment for the European native oyster: European Native Oyster Reef Ecosystems Are Universally Collapsed. This is an important step to help raise ambitions for Native Oyster Restoration.
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Solent Seascape Project (SSP) now has Ocean Decade endorsement
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SSP and other restoration projects feature in film: Land, City and Sea
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Paper: Global patterns in seagrass leaf and sediment carbon isotope fractionation have implications for carbon provenance calculations in blue carbon accreditation. This is an important global assessment of how to select suitable proxies for the contribution of organic seagrass, using biogeographic region, plant size and geomorphological features when calculating carbon credits.
