Identification

Title

Habitat point records from 1995 OPRU Sullom Voe (Shetland) littoral survey

Abstract

Re-survey of rocky shores in the region of Sullom Voe, Shetland during August 1995. The baseline survey was performed during May 1976. These re-surveys have been conducted up to the present day and comprise 20 years of data taken from the same transects (1977-1997). This allows an assessment of animal and plant populations to be made. Each site consists of a transect line down the shore with survey stations positioned along it. These sample sites are used every year. Some of the original sites have been dropped since the 1970's and some new sites added, however the coverage of Sullom Voe is still very good. Also the original sites each had approx. 20 stations located down the transect which has now been cut back to 5 stations per transect. These pre-established stations were selected to represent the five major zones of lower shore (LS), lower middle shore (LMS), middle shore (MS), upper middle shore (UMS) and upper shore (US). Each site has a double digit number, the first number (from 1 to 6) indicates the wave exposure on the Ballantine scale (Ballantine, 1961), which uses biological communities on the shore to determine wave exposure. The second number indicates a consecutive site at that exposure, e.g. Roe Clett is site number 2.3. These site numbers are included as part of the site title for the purpose of data entry onto the MNCR database. The MNCR exposure scale has been used to assess exposure at a site in preference to the Ballantine scale mentioned.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/ad1f73e9-1d7f-4813-887d-ea1d5d088e81-1995-OPRU-Sullom-Voe-Shetland-littoral-survey.csv

name: 1995-OPRU-Sullom-Voe-Shetland-littoral-survey.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

ad1f73e9-1d7f-4813-887d-ea1d5d088e81

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Moore, Little (1995) Surveys of rocky shores in the region of Sullom Voe, Shetland, August 1995.

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Marine Recorder

JNCCMNCR10000736

Habitat

MNCR

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-1.40107476

East bounding longitude

-1.060446802

North bounding latitude

60.50232807

South bounding latitude

60.32076849

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1995-08-10

End position

1995-08-16

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2001-11-12

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

Not Known

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