Identification

Title

Habitat point records from 1982 Leicester Polytechnic Shetland Oil Terminal approaches survey

Abstract

Thirty permanent transects established in 1978 and 1979, were surveyed. Individual stations were permanently marked at 25cm vertical intervals. Abundance scales from the report have been adapted from those in the report, to correspond to the MNCR abundance scale. The sites have been studied in 1978 (R650), 1979 (R282), 1980 (R1073), and 1982 (R530). Permanent transects have been set up to ensure precise relocation of the sites. The relative heights of the top stations of the transects in Whaal Firth were estimated by placing an observer at the top of each transect simultaneously. The position of the water line was noted, in relation to the nearest marked station at a predetermined time. It was assumed that tidal differences in the Firth were negligible to fix the top of each transect at an arbitrary reference level. The general survey methods used are based on those adopted by the Oil Pollution Control Unit (OPRU). The abundance scales and exposure rating scales are described in the 1979 report (R282), as are the sites and stations.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/765ac74c-4019-4eca-b8a9-ce8f8ac09ea6-1982-Leicester-Polytechnic-Shetland-Oil-Terminal-approaches-survey.csv

name: 1982-Leicester-Polytechnic-Shetland-Oil-Terminal-approaches-survey.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

765ac74c-4019-4eca-b8a9-ce8f8ac09ea6

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Fowler Ed: Fowler (1982) Ecological studies in the maritime approaches to the Shetland Oil Terminal Fowler Ed: Fowler (1979) Ecological studies in the maritime approaches to the Shetland Oil Terminal. Part 2. Survey of rocky shores. Fowler Ed: Fowler (1982) Ecological studies in the maritime approaches to the Shetland Oil Terminal Fowler Ed: Fowler (1979) Ecological studies in the maritime approaches to the Shetland Oil Terminal. Part 2. Survey of rocky shores.

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Marine Recorder

JNCCMNCR10000376

Habitat

MNCR

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-1.220137035

East bounding longitude

-0.97735094

North bounding latitude

60.66137265

South bounding latitude

60.45649304

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1979-06-01

End position

1982-07-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2007-05-22

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

Not Known

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