Cai Ladd

Cai Ladd
  • Doctor of Philosophy
  • Research Associate at University of Glasgow

Seeking funding opportunities for coastal wetland socioecological research in the UK, tropics, and the Arctic.

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Introduction
Associate Researcher in Mangrove Biogeomorphology at University of Glasgow
Current institution
University of Glasgow
Current position
  • Research Associate

Publications

Publications (25)
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Coastal saltmarshes provide globally important ecosystem services including 'blue carbon' sequestration, flood protection, pollutant remediation, habitat provision and cultural value. Large portions of marshes have been lost or fragmented as a result of land reclamation, embankment construction, and pollution. Sea level rise threatens marsh surviva...
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Political discourse around coastal wetland restoration and blue carbon management strategies has increased in the past decade, yet carbon storage has neither been a reason for restoration, nor a criterion to measure the success of current saltmarsh restoration schemes in the UK. To maximise climate change mitigation through saltmarsh restoration, k...
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Conservation biology emerged as a crisis discipline in the twentieth century amongst an increasing awareness of pollution and habitat loss. Since the early 2000s, societal and monetary benefits of nature were added to the narrative for biodiversity conservation. Using text mining, we show that authors now favour ecosystem-services over a crisis fra...
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Calculating the amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) stored in coastal environments, including salt marshes, is needed to determine their role in mitigating the Climate Crisis. Several techniques exist to calculate the SOC content of a unit of land from the upscaling of soil cores. However, no comprehensive assessment has been made on the performanc...
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A new saltmarsh soil dataset comprising of geochemical and physical property data from 752 soil samples collected through a sampling program supported by citizen scientists has been brought together with existing data to make the first national estimates of the surficial (top 10 cm) soil OC stock for Great British (GB) saltmarshes. To allow the inc...
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Conservation biology emerged as a crisis discipline in the 20th century amongst an increasing awareness of pollution and habitat loss. Since the early 2000s, societal and monetary benefits of nature were added to the narrative for biodiversity conservation. Using text mining, we show that authors now favour an ecosystem-services over a crisis frami...
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We report on the progress to assess the carbon stocks in UK saltmarsh habitats, highlighting best practice in achieving national-scale assessments, including advances in field, laboratory and data methods. New understanding of coring disturbance highlights sediment compaction and its influence on carbon stock assessment; improvements in remote sens...
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Resilience of coastal ecosystems to climate change is largely determined by the interaction between plants and the surrounding tidal environment. Research has tended to focus on processes operating at the local scale to explain resilience mechanisms, overlooking potentially important landscape-scale processes and patterns. We show from aerial image...
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Centuries of coastal development has led to the loss of saltmarsh extent worldwide. As marshes are shrinking, scientific understanding of marsh expansion and erosion processes is growing. Coastal managers are also recognising the importance of marshes for flood protection, carbon sequestration, and pollutant filtering. Considerable effort is now be...
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Acquiring in situ data of tidal flooding is key for the successful restoration planning of intertidal wetlands such as salt marshes and mangroves. However, monitoring spatially explicit inundation time series and tidal currents can be costly and technically challenging. With the increasing availability of low-cost sensors and data loggers, customiz...
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Acquiring in-situ data of tidal flooding is key for the successful restoration planning of intertidal wetlands such as salt marshes and mangroves. However, monitoring spatially explicit inundation time series and tidal currents can be costly and technically challenging. With the increasing availability of low-cost sensors and data loggers, customiz...
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Plain Language Summary Salt marshes are valuable ecosystems for human societies and are especially vulnerable to losses caused by human activity and climate change. Little is known about how the size of marshes has changed in response to disturbance over large‐ and long‐term scales. We used historical maps and aerial photographs to capture 150 year...
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Carbon stored in coastal wetland ecosystems is of global relevance to climate regulation. Broadscale inventories of this “blue” carbon store are currently lacking and labour intensive. Sampling 23 salt marshes in the United Kingdom, we developed a Saltmarsh Carbon Stock Predictor (SCSP) with the capacity to predict up to 44 % of spatial variation i...
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Carbon stored in coastal wetland ecosystems is of global relevance to climate regulation. Broad-scale inventories of this "blue" carbon store are currently lacking and labour intensive. Sampling 23 salt marshes in the United Kingdom, we developed a Saltmarsh Carbon Stock Predictor (SCSP) with the capacity to predict up to 44% of spatial variation i...
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This study reviewed current evidence to inform selection of environmental predictors for Active Management Systems in classified shellfish harvesting areas. The aims of this study were to: (1) undertake a literature review of the factors that influence faecal contamination of shellfish; (2) Establish relationships between Escherichia coli (E. coli)...
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Background: Plants play a pivotal role in soil stabilization, with above-ground vegetation and roots combining to physically protect soil against erosion. It is possible that diverse plant communities boost root biomass, with knock-on positive effects for soil stability, but these relationships are yet to be disentangled. Question: We hypothesiz...
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Appendix S1. Additional methods section with step‐wise regression predictor selection.
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Appendix S3. Supplementary graph of above‐ground and root biomass and soil organic matter.
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Appendix S4. Additional results section with detailed soil characteristics of Morecambe Bay and Essex salt marsh grasslands.
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Appendix S5. Supplementary graph of regional differences in erosion rate.
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Appendix S2. Vegetation core section results.

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