Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/D/S/2000/01307
Marine artificial habitat manipulation: prediction and measurement of environmental impacts.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr M Sayer, Scottish Association For Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory
- Science Area:
- None
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Pollution and Waste
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Ecosystem Scale Processes
- Hydrological Processes
- Population Ecology
- Community Ecology
- Abstract:
- The deliberate large-scale alteration of nearshore marine environments occurs when coastal protection schemes, such as artificial reefs, are constructed. To be effective such constructions have to be on a major scale and possess the potential to change significantly physical characteristics of the receiving environment. The major physical transformations (e.g. hard substratum introduction, sea bed elevation, current profile alteration, sediment modification), will, in turn, effect change on the surrounding ecosystem. Industrial investment in a large-scale experimental matrix combined with the collation of pre-deployment physical and biological datasets now offers the opportunity to develop, test and modify predictive models of the effects of large-scale artificial marine interventions in northern temperate latitudes.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/D/S/2000/01307
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- EO Programmes Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Connect B
This grant award has a total value of £232,951
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £2,453 | £95,731 | £90,732 | £44,036 |
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