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Spatial mapping of surficial soil organic carbon storage and stocks across Great British saltmarshes

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

The geospatial dataset maps organic carbon (OC) storage (kg OC m-2) and OC stocks (tonnes OC) of surficial soils across 438 Great British saltmarshes. The OC density for the surficial soils (top 10 cm) is mapped across 451.65 km2 of saltmarshes, identified from current saltmarsh maps of Great Britain’s three constituent countries; Scotland, England and Wales The spatial maps are built upon surficial (top 10 cm) soil bulk density and carbon data produced by the NERC C-Side project and Marine Scotland data combined with existing saltmarsh vegetation maps. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/cb8840f2-c630-4a86-9bba-d0e070d56f04

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
cb8840f2-c630-4a86-9bba-d0e070d56f04
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2022-07-07
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Smeaton, C., Burden, A., Ruranska, P., Ladd, C.J.T., Garbutt, A., Jones, L., McMahon, L., Miller, L.C., Norris, D.A., Skov, M.W., Austin, W.E.N. (2022). Spatial mapping of surficial soil organic carbon storage and stocks across Great British saltmarshes. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/cb8840f2-c630-4a86-9bba-d0e070d56f04
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(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng