Mapping the distribution of benthic biotopes in the Summer Isles. Lifeforms

• Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
• Last updated: 14 June 2018
• Topic: Environment
• Licence: Open Government Licence

Summary

A survey of habitats with particular reference to maerl around the Summer Isles, Ross & Chromate, Scotland was undertaken by the Benthic Mapping and assessment project (BMAP), at the University of Newcastle, in collaboration with Scottish Natural Heritage. Careful integration of acoustic data with biological data forms the basis of biological resource maps.

Additional information source:

Sotheran, I. 1997. Broadscale biological mapping of the Summer Isles.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2018-06-14
• Access contraints: No limitations
• Harvest GUID: e7e378c3-d1c4-4ae0-ba37-6035a241cd25
• Extent: Latitude: 58.041701° to 57.993465°
• Extent: Longitude: -5.482126° to -5.387156°
• Dataset reference date: 1996-12-31 (publication)
• Responsible party: Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC (owner)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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