Assessment of seagrass health in response to water quality in the Solent & Poole Harbour

Background to Project Concerns 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...