Identification

Title

Species point records from 1965-70 DAFS Scottish littoral sediment survey

Abstract

The study of a number of sandy beaches covering a range of environmental conditions revealed faunistic variation which reflected the different species' tolerance of or preference for the conditions prevailing on particular beaches. Whenever a balanced situation in the environmental conditions existed, especially between shelter and exposure, a typical marine north-temperate water community characterised by the bivalve Tellina tenuis was present. This comunity included a basic faunistic complement consisting of polychaetes (both sessile and errant) on the mid and lower shore, and a few crustaceans on the upper shore. Severe exposure restricts diversity, eliminating sedentary forms, especially bivalve molluscs and, encouraging the numerical dominance of agile swimmers such as haustoriid amphipods and isopods. These species have a short life-span and the fauna is characterised by its flexibility. Extreme shelter favours the establishment of a predominantly sessile community of polychaetes and long-living bivalves.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/b72b6ea8-c4de-41c7-816a-e506f1a56d19-1965-70-DAFS-Scottish-littoral-sediment-survey.csv

name: 1965-70-DAFS-Scottish-littoral-sediment-survey.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

b72b6ea8-c4de-41c7-816a-e506f1a56d19

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Eleftheriou, McIntyre (1976) The intertidal fauna of sandy beaches - a survey of the Scottish coast

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Marine Recorder

JNCCMNCR10000326

MNCR

Species

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-7.430422549

East bounding longitude

-2.001723168

North bounding latitude

58.70189748

South bounding latitude

54.47139107

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1965-03-10

End position

1970-04-08

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2014-09-29

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

This survey was extracted from a Marine Recorder snapshot.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Comma Separated Values

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

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

custodian

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

2018-05-17

Metadata language

eng