Marine Protected Area (MPA) is a significant instrument for fisheries management and conservation. MPAs can safeguard habitat, and ecological processes as well as species diversity, their abundance, size, and densities. In a No-Take Zone (NTZ), these environmental and...
Understanding the Importance of Blue Carbon
Although the term blue carbon has been created around two decades (Lovelock and Duarte, 2019, Nelleman et al., 2008), scientists have already started to do research on the carbon cycle hundred years ago (Falkowski et al., 2000). Blue carbon mainly includes organic and...
Identifying and predicting significant Eunicella verrucosa communities in Jersey through Citizen Science data gathering methodology.
Jersey passed its much anticipated, revised Wildlife Law in 2021. This law replaced the Conservation of Wildlife (Jersey) Law 2000 and is the Islands primary legislation to enact the requirements of the international biodiversity agreements and treaties to which...
Understanding Decapod Crustacean Responses to Sea Temperature Change
Rapid global temperature increase has been mitigated by the ocean absorbing more than 93% of excess heat from anthropogenic emissions. However, global sea surface temperature has risen approximately 0.13°C per decade over the course of the 20th century. Rising ocean...
What matters is what you do: The rediscovery of skills in probation practice
This article discusses the recent emergence of practice skills or ‘core correctional practices’ as a focus for research and staff development in probation work. Starting with the gradual discovery of an empirical approach to practitioners’ use of skills, the article...
Purple Dewplant Management Techniques: The Effectiveness of Removal and Impacts on Native Flora Regrowth, in the Coastal Sand Dunes of Jersey, Channel Islands
Coastal sand dune systems are one of the most rare and natural remaining ecosystem types on Europe. The dynamism created by variable climate and influx of sand creates a diverse mosaic of habitat which favour a small diversity of specialised species. The British Isles...