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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 15 December 2015
Survey of the sediment shores between Hunstanton and Brancaster over a period of 3 days. Five littoral sites were completed with 19 sediment core samples and two epibiota records. The majority of...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
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- 15 December 2015
Littoral survey from Point Lynas, E Anglesey to Rhos-on-sea using standard MNCR techniques for recording, photography and sediment sampling. Of the 29 sites, fourteen were of sediment. Large areas...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
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- 15 December 2015
Sublittoral survey from Point Lynas, E Anglesey to Rhos-on-sea using SCUBA to complete recording, photography and sampling of rock and sediment habitats. Seventeen sites included fine sediment...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 15 December 2015
Detailed survey completed by MNCR, SNH staff and contractor of the Western Approaches of the Sound of Mull and the whole of the Ardnamurchan Peninsular. Predominantly rocky substrata surveyed with...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 15 December 2015
This survey was carried out as part of the Marine Nature Conservation Review (MNCR). The MNCR was started in 1987 by the Nature Conservancy Council and subsequent to the Environment Protection Act...
- Published by:
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 15 December 2015
This survey was carried out as part of the Marine Nature Conservation Review (MNCR). The MNCR was started in 1987 by the Nature Conservancy Council and subsequent to the Environment Protection Act...
- Published by:
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 15 December 2015
This survey was carried out as part of the Marine Nature Conservation Review (MNCR). The MNCR was started in 1987 by the Nature Conservancy Council and subsequent to the Environment Protection Act...
- Published by:
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 15 December 2015
A small survey of 3 sites completed in June 1996 and a days' survey of caves in the vicinity of Newport and Cardigan on 24th September 1996 with the aid of Mike Baines of the Dyfed Wildlife Trust.
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 15 December 2015
Standard MNCR diving survey of sublittoral rocky and sediment habitats between Abermenai Point and Carmel Head, including the Skerries offshore islands. Much of the survey area has subtidal tidal...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 15 December 2015
Standard MNCR survey of littoral sites betwen the southern end of the Menai Strait (Abermena Point) and Carmel Head. Sediment sites were sampled using 8 pooled 10.3 cm diameter cores and rock site...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 15 December 2015
The shores of Cardigan Bay from Harlech to Newport in west Wales were surveyed during 2 week-long surveys. Detailed species and habitat records were completed for 63 sites, of which 24 were cored...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 15 December 2015
Standard MNCR diving survey of sublittoral rocky and sediment habitats between Abermenai Point and Carmel Head to fill in the gaps left by 1996 survey dive due to bad weather and boat breakdowns....
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 22 June 2016
The Isle of May lies at the entrance to the Firth of Forth. It is a small island designated as a National Nature Reserve. The coastline of the Isle of May is predominantly rocky with bedrock...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 22 June 2016
This survey carried out to enhance the survey coverage of the 1988 MNCR survey of Skye (Hiscock & Covey 1991). This survey aimed to describe the habitats and communities of the littoral zone,...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 22 June 2016
The inner Solway is an area of predominantly sedimentary substrata, with large expanses of mobile sediment and constantly migrating river channels from the Rivers Esk and Eden which enter the Firth...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 15 December 2015
A small opportunistic sublittoral survey of Loch Nevis, undertaken at the request of NCC Scotland, in response to fish farm proposals. A survey report has not been produced. Records currently...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 22 June 2016
Loch Tarbert deeply bisects the south Hebridean island of Jura. It is a relatively small and shallow fiordic loch, some 11 km in length and 43 m at its deepest point. The loch is divided into three...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 15 December 2015
Fjords in two areas of south-west Norway were surveyed to compare the benthic communities present with those found in Scottish sealochs. The results will assist in the evaluation of the nature...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 15 December 2015
This survey was carried out to fill gaps in the survey coverage of the earlier OPRU/MNCR surveys of Shetland, Foula and Fair Isle (Hiscock 1986; Howson 1987). 6 littoral sites, 31 sublittoral dive...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 15 December 2015
Loch Linnhe forms the submerged western end of the Great Glen Fault which divides the highlands in two between Inverness and Fort William. With Lochs Etive, Creran, a'Choire, Leven and Eil...