Identification

Title

Species point records from 1980 OPRU Lundy littoral rock & caves survey

Abstract

Field studies carried out in 1980 provide records of shore communities from five open-shore sites and six caves or pairs of caves at Lundy. The species present are listed with notes on their distribution and abundance and a broad description is given of the habitats and communities present. Two main features of Lundy shores are pointed to as of high scientific interest: the very wide range of habitats and therefore species present along a short length of coastline, and the exceptional richness of slate shores in the region of Rat Island. Lundy also has a large number of intertidal caves and these are an unusual habitat with distinctive communities present. Although the communities on Lundy shores are subject to considerable enviromental stress and therefore recovery potential after damage is probably high, some species and habitats including lower-shore organisms and some cave communities are probably susceptable to long-term damage from disturbance. Care should be taken that inappropriate development or purposeful disturbance does not affect the area of Rat Island. The south-west part of the Landing Bay, The Gates, Lametry Beach and Gannets Bay should be especially protected from oil pollution. Studies of boulder shores, caves and rock pools should be carried out in a systematic comparative manner in the future. There is a need for a very general survey and associated photographic record of Lundy shores to at least assess how adequate our description of shore habitats and communities is, and to provide a basis for recording gross change.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/ca49e288-35a5-4bd0-bdd1-7e7a50073771-1980-OPRU-Lundy-littoral-rock-caves-survey.csv

name: 1980-OPRU-Lundy-littoral-rock-caves-survey.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

ca49e288-35a5-4bd0-bdd1-7e7a50073771

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Hiscock (1982) Lundy Marine Nature Reserve management plan. Supplement 1. Information file on the littoral ecology of Lundy.

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Marine Recorder

JNCCMNCR10000179

MNCR

Species

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-4.689750851

East bounding longitude

-4.635690135

North bounding latitude

51.21048805

South bounding latitude

51.15529236

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1980-01-01

End position

1980-12-31

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