Identification

Title

Species point records from 1982 OPRU Skomer littoral survey

Abstract

This report describes the major littoral habitats and selected special sites together with their communities around Skomer Island and the adjacent Marloes peninsula. The information is provided in a format suitable for inclusion in a management plan for a proposed statutory marine nature reserve. Sites were selected as being representative of as wide a range of habitats as possible and include bedrock and boulder shores of various aspects and water surge areas and caves. A total of 22 sites were surveyed. Descriptions of these sites together with summaries of their associated communities are given and discussed in this report. Field data is presented in Appendix 1 and annotated species lists are provided in Appendix 2. A photographic record of the sites and communities was also submitted to the NCC. A catalogue of photographs is given in Appendix 3. The findings of this report are discussed in the light of those of previous studies. The chief features of the survey area are: a) the presence of classic examples of shores extremely exposed to wave action; b) shores which provide an exceptionally wide variety of other habitats and communities, and; c) a number of unusual microhabitats, all within a relatively small geographic area. The occurance of several species in the survey area at or near the northern limits of their geographic range contributes to the scientific interest of the area. In the light of this survey, it is recommended that detailed surveys of special habitats and the production of comprehensive species lists should be the aim of any future work. The littoral zone of Skomer Marine Reserve is assessed for its value as a conservation area.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/0d1b931e-0084-4f43-81a2-5ff24e64bd54-1982-OPRU-Skomer-littoral-survey.csv

name: 1982-OPRU-Skomer-littoral-survey.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

0d1b931e-0084-4f43-81a2-5ff24e64bd54

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Bunker, Iball, Crump (1983) Skomer Marine Reserve. Littoral survey.

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Marine Recorder

JNCCMNCR10000160

MNCR

Species

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-5.3190742029999996

East bounding longitude

-5.214636658

North bounding latitude

51.75080686

South bounding latitude

51.70868441

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1982-07-31

End position

1982-09-19

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2007-05-22

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