Marine biodiversity and climate change (MarClim): Scotland 2020-2022
Burrows, M.T.; Brook, T.; Twigg, G. (2025). Marine biodiversity and climate change (MarClim): Scotland 2020-2022. NatureScot Research Report 1371. Scotland's Nature Agency: Inverness. 113 pp.
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Biodiversity
Climate change
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rocky coastlines; community ecology; ecosystem function; environmental drivers; intertidal survey |
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- Burrows, M.T.
- Brook, T.
- Twigg, G.
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| Abstract |
This report describes a series of surveys of the biodiversity of rocky intertidal seashores around Scotland in September 2020, June to September 2021, and June to September 2022. The work builds on the ongoing MarClim (Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change) programme, started in 2002 and covering the coastlines of Great Britain and Ireland (to 2005) and parts of the Atlantic coasts of mainland Europe. Surveys follow a common protocol aimed at rapid assessment of abundance of over 50 species, supplemented by direct counts of species and photography of each seashore. The data collected was compared to that obtained from surveys of the same locations in 2014-2015 to determine changes. Such changes were assessed relative to expectations for responses to warming among warm-affinity and cold-affinity species. |
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