Identification

Title

Habitat point records from 1986 University of Dundee Scapa Flow sublittoral sediment survey

Abstract

Survey work on sublittoral sediment infauna of Scapa Flow was carried out in April 1986, at 17 sites, using grab samples (a Hunter Grab was used). The sampling strategy used was based upon the stations used in an earlier D.A.F.S. (1975) survey of the area not produced. Both the sediment characteristics and the fauna are described for each station sampled. The stations investigated can be grouped into several units (see report) based upon these sedimentary and faunistic characteristics. A significant observation was the discovery of uniquely abundant populations of the caudofoveate mollusc, Chaetoderma nitidulum. Several new species records for Orkney were obtained and the total species list for the region is also given.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/8b09bbeb-9721-45ae-964e-641275db1648-1986-University-of-Dundee-Scapa-Flow-sublittoral-sediment-survey.csv

name: 1986-University-of-Dundee-Scapa-Flow-sublittoral-sediment-survey.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

8b09bbeb-9721-45ae-964e-641275db1648

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Jones, Payne, Simpson, Atkins, Noble (1988) A survey of the infaunal benthos of Scapa Flow.

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Marine Recorder

JNCCMNCR10000130

Habitat

MNCR

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3.213777144

East bounding longitude

-2.905911117

North bounding latitude

58.96500117

South bounding latitude

58.81877298

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1986-05-02

End position

1986-05-02

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1999-10-04

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