Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/A/S/2000/00394
Late Holocene environmental change, baseline conditions and floodplain enhancement.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor A Brown, University of Exeter, Geography
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor DE Walling, University of Exeter, Geography
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr M Dinnin, University of Exeter, Geography
- Grant held at:
- University of Exeter, Geography
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Freshwater
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Freshwater
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Earth Surface Processes
- Palaeoenvironments
- Conservation Ecology
- Abstract:
- Current attempts, throughout Europe, to increase biodiversity and environmental quality by restoring lowland rivers and floodplains is based on inadequate data. This project will provide a geomorphological and ecological baseline for floodplain restoration in relation to land use and climate change. The project develops a pilot study (NERC Small Grant) which showed how a multi-channel system in the SW (the Culm) could provide comprehensive data on channel-form, sedimentation, and floodplain ecology over the last 3000 years. This will be exploited by using Coleopteran, macrofossil and pollen analysis a comprehensive dating programme (14C, 210Pb, 137 Cs) and innovative use of OSL. The recent conversion of the Culm to a single channel river (c. 300 bp) has provided 45 km of palaeochannels and a unique opportunity to characterise less-impacted lowland floodplains.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/A/S/2000/00394
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £214,477
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £119,712 | £4,407 | £25,430 | £64,928 |
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