Identification

Title

Broadscale mapping of sublittoral habitats in the Sound of Barra: south west of South Uist

Abstract

This map covers the area in the north of The Sound of Barra, at the south-western end of South Uist.The Sound of Barra has been selected as a possible Special Area of Conservation (pSAC) on the basis of the nationally important colony of common seals, Phoca vitulina, and also for the wide variety of habitats associated with shallow ‘sandbanks which are slightly covered by seawater all the time’. A number of the sandbank habitats are of considerable conservation value, most notably the extensive beds of the eelgrass Zostera marina and tide-swept maerl beds composed of the coralline red alga Phymatolithon calcareum. A comprehensive biotope mapping survey of the sublittoral habitats within the Sound was undertaken in August 2001, by a collaborative research group from the University of St Andrews, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh University and Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH). This information supplemented the existing knowledge on the distribution of marine communities within the Sound of Barra pSAC and all this information was synthesised into a series of biotope classification maps. Additional information source: Bates, C. R., Moore, C. G., Malthus, T., Harries, D. B., Austin, W., Mair, J. M. and Karpouzli, E. (2004). Broad scale mapping of sublittoral habitats in The Sound of Barra, Scotland. Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No. 005 (ROAME No. F01AA4

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/bc15be40-a2f7-44b6-9e67-fb237495a816-GB000423.zip

name: GB000423.zip

Unique resource identifier

code

bc15be40-a2f7-44b6-9e67-fb237495a816

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Bates, C. R., Moore, C. G., Malthus, T., Harries, D. B., Austin, W., Mair, J. M. and Karpouzli, E. (2004). Broad scale mapping of sublittoral habitats in The Sound of Barra, Scotland. Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No. 005 (ROAME No. F01AA4

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Seabed Habitats and Geology

GB000423

Corpulent

Local

R3301

Show on webGIS

Nature Conservation

Research

AGDS

Cores

Diver survey

Grabs

Satellite imagery

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-7.419617

East bounding longitude

-7.262398

North bounding latitude

57.11961

South bounding latitude

57.075721

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2001-08-09

End position

2001-08-17

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2003-12-31

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Classification system details: Classified according to 5 substrate types and 3 biological descriptions. Associated datasets: GB000359; GB000360

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Geospatial (vector polygon)

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Limitations on public access

No limitations

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-06-14

Metadata language