2015 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Loch nam Madadh Site Condition Monitoring and Site Check survey of marine sedimentary and reef habitats

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• Last updated: 01 January 2016
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Summary

An purpose of this study was to carry out site condition monitoring (SCM) of the sandbanks feature of the Loch nam Madadh SAC and Site Checks of the remaining marine sedimentary and reef protected features (apart from saline lagoons). The principle aims were to: (1) identify any deterioration in the condition of the subtidal sandbanks feature; and (2) to form a judgement on its current condition. SCM was inaugurated in the SAC in 2004, which provided a baseline for the current study. The SCM work largely took the form of an extensive drop-down video survey and infaunal survey of the loch system, together with more detailed surveying of the sandbanks feature along transects at selected maerl bed sites. The site check work principally involved surveying along relocatable transects established at mudflat, reef and tidal rapids locations. A survey of the tidal rapids feature of the Loch an Duin SSSI and the Loch nam Madadh SSSI, both of which overlap with the SAC, was also undertaken.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2018-07-11
• Access contraints: no restrictions to public access
• Harvest GUID: bb3ac1e2-f94b-459a-942b-e7293287f2db
• Extent: Latitude: 57.6481° to 57.5851°
• Extent: Longitude: -7.2234° to -7.0826°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2016-01-01 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: (originator); Scottish Natural Heritage, Inverness (custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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Not suitable for use in navigation; SNH copyright data which is available for re-use under government licence terms: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/