Identification

Title

Species point records from 1985 AWA River Stour littoral survey

Abstract

The survey was done as a pilot study for the future monitoring of the area in a three year rolling programme. A comparison was made with an earlier survey by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (Kay and Knights 1975), for any changes in the benthic ecology. Sampling was undertaken from a boat in August 1985, with the exception of sites 1-5, 40 and 41 which were accessed by foot from the shore. Samples were taken with a corer of 6.5cm internal diameter, 15cm deep and a surface area of 33.2cm. Three replicates were taken at each site resulting in an area of 99.5cmsq. Each sample was put through a 0.5mm seive. The survey concluded that the condition of the macroinvertebrate benthos compares favourably with that of other estuaries in the area, and classes the river as `clean`. The study recomended monitoring of the apparent shift from a mollusc dominated community to a polychaete dominated community. No data was recorded from sites 20 and 23 in the survey report.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/689beacc-3ac7-460e-a54a-d9743599a624-1985-AWA-River-Stour-littoral-survey.csv

name: 1985-AWA-River-Stour-littoral-survey.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

689beacc-3ac7-460e-a54a-d9743599a624

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Mann (1985) Intertidal benthic survey of the Stour estuary Wood Ed: Wood (1988) Sea life of Britain and Ireland Kay, Knights (1975) The macro-invertebrate fauna of the intertidal soft sediments of south east England.

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Marine Recorder

JNCCMNCR10000343

MNCR

Species

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

1.012453159

East bounding longitude

1.285981754

North bounding latitude

51.97491558

South bounding latitude

51.93160625

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1985-08-01

End position

1985-08-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2001-11-16

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