Identification

Title

2014 Natural England Humber Estuary SAC Intertidal Sediment Survey.

Alternative title(s)

MRNE017700000005

Abstract

Survey name: 2014 Natural England Humber Estuary SAC Intertidal Sediment Survey. This is a collation of surveys to gather data and evidence from a variety of marine environments. The survey purposes vary and include recommended Marine Conservation Zone (rMCZ) Phase I or II verification surveys, condition assessments, surveys of features of Natura 2000 sites (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area), Intertidal surveys, Benthic grab surveys and others. All surveys are carried out to specified standards and follow established methodologies. Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year]. Attribution statement: Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data.nbn.org.uk/Datasets/GA001574

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name:

description: Natural England Access to Evidence Catalogue

Unique resource identifier

code

57ebd6a8-08d0-46c6-9253-547c27854df6

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

Keyword set

keyword value

NEbatch3

Keyword set

keyword value

Habitats and biotopes

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2014-08-22

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-0.86

East bounding longitude

0.21000000000000002

North bounding latitude

53.73

South bounding latitude

53.42

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

22/08/2014

End position

05/11/2014

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2016-09-30

date type

publication

effective date

2016-09-30

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

"The Humber Estuary is one of the largest estuaries in the UK and drains over 20% of the total land surface of England. Major tributaries flowing into the estuary include the Rivers Hull, Trent, Ouse, Wharfe, Aire, and Don. The Humber Estuary Europen Marine Site is comprised of the marine components of the Humber Estuary SAC, SPA and Ramsar site. In 2004 the entire Humber Estuary (37,000Ha) and the associated features of interest were notified as a SSSI. The estuary supports nationally important numbers of wintering waterfowl and passage waders, and a nationally important assemblage of breeding birds in the loland open waters and adjacent margins. Intertidal mudflats and sandflats are one of several interest features of the site. IECS was commissioned by Natural England to conduct an ecological survey in order to monitor and assess the intertidal mudflat and sandflat communities of the Humber Estuary. Natural England identified four survey sectors including the inner, middle, North bank outer and South bank outer estuary. In each of these four sectors, seven Phase II sampling transects were located, positioned in order to ensure all main biotopes had been targeted, and to provide good spatial coverage of the estuary. Due to the spatial extent of the survey area and expanses of deep mud, a hovercraft was used to facilitate the safe movement between transects. Standard NMBAQC and WFD protocols for the collection of benthic core samples and particle saize analysis (PSA) were followed. Two sampling stations were located at mid and low shore along each transect located within the inner and middle estuary sectors. Three sample locations were located along each transect positioned within the outer estuary on both the north and south banks. These sampling positions covered the upper, middle and lower shore. At each station three replicate core samples (0.01m2) were taken to a depth of 15cm and all within 1m2 of each other, approximately from the centre of each distinct habitat or biotope. Samples were placed in pre-labelled plastic bags and transferred to labelled, clean plastic buckets at the end of each survey day. The samples were sieved through a 0.5mm sieve and fixed used 4% buffered formaldehyde solution containing Rose Bengal vital stain, within 10 hours of collection. Macrofaunal organisms within the samples were identified to species level where possible, and enumerated. where only part of an organism was identified, the species was marked as 'present'. Additionally, a fourth core was taken for PSA and kept chilled during delivery to the NLS laboratory for analysis. "

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Comma Separated Values file (CSV)

version of format

11.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Natural England

email address

data.services@naturalengland.org.uk

web address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england

description: Natural England Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Natural England

email address

data.services@naturalengland.org.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-03-19

Metadata language