DPLUS119 WP2: Status assessments for marine/coastal habitats within TCI territorial waters – Sensitivity assessments 2023

Abstract

The ‘Technical assistance programme for effective coastal-marine management in the Turks and Caicos Islands’ project is a three-year project funded through Darwin Plus (DPLUS119). The aim of the project is to improve the evidence base in marine and coastal environments to support sustainable coastal marine management in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI).

Work Package 2 (WP2) – Status assessments for marine/coastal habitats within TCI territorial waters – will improve understanding of the extent and condition of marine and coastal habitats within TCI. This will be used to support the development of suitable monitoring metrics to detect change to coastal and marine natural capital, and longer-term development of a monitoring programme.

This report, produced through WP2, aimed to identify the priority marine habitats of the Turks and Caicos Islands, which human activities and their associated pressures occur in these habitats, and how sensitive these habitats are to the identified pressures. The main report is accompanied by 5 appendices:

Appendix 1: Literature review of condition of TCI marine and coastal habitats and assets
Appendix 2: Activities and Pressures Database
Appendix 3: Sensitivity Assessment for the Turks and Caicos Islands coral and algal reef habitats
Appendix 4: Sensitivity Assessment for the Turks and Caicos Islands seagrass
Appendix 5: Sensitivity Assessment for the Turks and Caicos Islands sand habitats

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JNCC Report 748: DPLUS119 WP2: Status assessments for marine/coastal habitats within TCI territorial waters – Sensitivity assessments PDF
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JNCC Report 748: Appendix 1. Literature review of condition of TCI marine and coastal habitats and assets XLSX
50.7 KB jncc-report-748-appendix-1-condition-assessment-literature-review.xlsx
JNCC Report 748: Appendix 2. Activities and Pressures Database XLSX
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JNCC Report 748: Appendix 3. Turks and Caicos Islands coral and algal reef habitats – Sensitivity assessment PDF
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JNCC Report 748: Appendix 4. Turks and Caicos Islands seagrass – Sensitivity Assessment PDF
414.4 KB jncc-report-748-appendix-4-seagrass-sensitivity-assessment.pdf
JNCC Report 748: Appendix 5. Turks and Caicos Islands sand habitats – Sensitivity Assessment PDF
291.7 KB jncc-report-748-appendix-5-sand-sensitivity-assessment.pdf

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Reference date 2023·11·01

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Savage, J., Carter, A., Nikolova, C., Robson, L. & Ridgeway, A. 2023. Technical assistance programme for effective coastal-marine management in the Turks and Caicos Islands (DPLUS119). WP2: Status assessments for marine/coastal habitats within Turks and Caicos Islands territorial waters – Sensitivity assessments. JNCC Report 748. JNCC, Peterborough, ISSN 0963-8091.

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This work was funded by the UK Government through the Darwin Plus project DPLUS119 ‘Technical assistance programme for effective coastal-marine management in the Turks and Caicos Islands’.

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Metadata date 2023·12·01

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