Identification

Title

Habitat point records from 1989-91 Biomor southern Irish Sea sublittoral survey

Abstract

The aim of the BIOMOR survey was to obtain specimens of invertebrates for taxonomic and biogeographical purposes. The secondary objective was to determine the numerical abundance of the benthic invertebrate population, as well as their diversity and the extent of benthic communities. The work was carried out during the summers of 1989 and 1991, and covered the St Georges Channel, Cardigan Bay the Celtic Deep and several areas off Anglesey and the Lleyn Peninsula. A 0.1 m2 van Veen grab was used to collect samples of sediment. Three grabs were taken from each point, one was used for sediment analysis, the other two were pooled and sieved for macrofauna. Some sample points in St Georges Channel, Cardigan Bay and off the Lleyn Peninsula had to be rejected as grab sampling proved to be ineffective at these stations.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/ae85f7db-53bc-479e-ade7-79d3f84c534d-1989-91-Biomor-southern-Irish-Sea-sublittoral-survey.csv

name: 1989-91-Biomor-southern-Irish-Sea-sublittoral-survey.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

ae85f7db-53bc-479e-ade7-79d3f84c534d

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Mackie, Oliver, Rees (1995) Benthic biodiversity in the southern Irish Sea

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Marine Recorder

JNCCMNCR10000634

Habitat

MNCR

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.502553945

East bounding longitude

-4.151244721

North bounding latitude

53.44030186

South bounding latitude

51.26377937

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1989-07-10

End position

1991-08-06

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2001-08-21

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