Tender Details

Country: United Kingdom
Summary: Assessment of Seagrass Health in Response to Water Quality in the Solent & Poole Harbour
GBT Ref No: 53378743
Deadline: 09 Jun 2021
Financier: Self Financed
Purchaser Ownership: Government
Tender Value: Refer Document
Notice Type: Tender
Document Ref. No.: tender_272408/960811
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Title : Assessment of seagrass health in response to water quality in the Solent & Poole Harbour
Location Of Contract : Any region
Industry : Environmental services - 90700000
Value Of Contract : £0
Description : Background to ProjectConcerns around water quality (elevated nutrients) in our estuaries is currently leading to agencies to seek for improvements to agriculture, wastewater treatment works and nutrient neutrality in development.Environment Agency data for Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen, phytoplankton and opportunistic macroalgae covering littoral sediment, is currently used a proxy indicator to assess the water quality-nutrients attribute for intertidal and subtidal seagrass. Evidence is currently largely based on the impacts on mudflats from opportunistic macroalgae. However, there is concern that this current indicator of water quality is not taking account sufficiently the wider ecosystem effects of elevated nutrients in our estuaries. Water quality sampling can vary greatly throughout the year, assessments of these using these indicators are not always close to where the Zostera beds are present and there is literature that suggests seagrass health can be affected at lower nutrient concentrations than indicated by high densities of macroalgae over littoral sediment. Throughout the Solent and Poole Harbour there have been significant declines in the extent of seagrass and some loss at least has been linked to eutro...
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Assessment of Seagrass Health in Response to Water Quality in the Solent & Poole Harbour - Uk Tender

The DEFRA NETWORK ETENDERING PORTAL, a Government sector organization in United Kingdom, has announced a new tender for Assessment of Seagrass Health in Response to Water Quality in the Solent & Poole Harbour. This tender is published on UkTender under GBT Ref No: 53378743 and is categorized as a Tender. Interested and eligible suppliers are invited to participate by reviewing the tender documents and submitting their bids before the deadline on 2021-06-09.

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