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RESEARCHER:		Nina O'Hanlon		University of Glasgow
PROJECT:		Seabirds as monitors of the intertidal habitat
Management Tool / Applied Outcome					Related Policies
A	Seabird Index to act as a proxy for intertidal habitat health, using census data, habitat use data and behavioural data.			è	Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)
					Marine (Scotland) Act
B	Habitat differences between intertidal locations where foraging and breeding seabirds are present and absent.			è	Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)
C	Determination of extent candidate seabird species are feeding within the intertidal habitat and alternative foraging habitats
D	Pressures impacting upon seabirds at each intertidal location, i.e. climate, food availability, human disturbance, competition, predation, pollution
E	Determination of any differences in species composition and abundance of specific species in intertidal locations with and without aquaculture
	IBIS STAKEHOLDERS to whom project is relevant
	TRANS-JURISDICTION	IRELAND		N.IRELAND		SCOTLAND
	EU Aquaculture Initiative	Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine		Council for Nature Conservation and the Countryside		Marine Scotland
	Shellfish Association of Great Britain	Environmental Protection Agency Ireland		Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARDNI)		Scottish National Heritage
	Royal Society for the Protection of Birds	National Parks & Wildlife Service (Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht)		Department of the Environment
				Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA)
				Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute (AFBI)