Identification

Title

Species point records from 1989 MNCR Cumbria littoral survey

Abstract

The predominantly wild and unspoilt coastline within the survey area lies on the north-eastern side of the Irish Sea, between the expansive sediment shores of Morecambe Bay in the south and the more enclosed coast of the Outer Solway Firth to the north. The area is transitional between the Lake District massif to the east and the Irish Sea basin to the west. The shoreline has a natural grandeur, with spectacular sandstone cliffs at St Bees Head, sandy beaches backed by low boulder cliffs, rock scars and vast areas of wave-exposed mobile sand. Twenty-seven sites were surveyed on both rocky and sedimentary substrata. Open coast areas were dominated by mobile fine sand, with associated crustacean and polychaete dominated communities. These fine sands were interspersed with boulder scars (glacially derived boulders and cobbles) which increased habitat diversity and the range of species present. The polychaete Sabellaria alveolata was a major constituent of boulder scar communities forming extensive reefs in some of locations. Rocky shores were very limited in distribution. At St Bees Head, the northern limit of the survey area, a wide range of rocky littoral habitats were present, including horizontal rock platforms, crevices, pools, rockmills and overhangs. Beware ! the infauna has been put in the epifauna window Habitat diversity on the Cumbrian coast is limited leading to a limited range of species being recorded during the present survey. The nature conservation importance of the area has been assessed, with a number of habitats and species considered to be of local, regional, national or international importance.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/5777fded-ab5b-4315-a61b-81da9d903e94-1989-MNCR-Cumbria-littoral-survey.csv

name: 1989-MNCR-Cumbria-littoral-survey.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

5777fded-ab5b-4315-a61b-81da9d903e94

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Covey, Davies (1989) Littoral survey of south Cumbria (Barrow-in-Furness to St. Bees Head).

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Marine Recorder

JNCCMNCR10000020

MNCR

Species

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3.61552628

East bounding longitude

-3.167613763

North bounding latitude

54.51026875

South bounding latitude

54.03862278

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1989-04-04

End position

1989-07-21

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2001-08-29

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