Identification

Title

Species point records from 1977-81 Eleftheriou/Robertson east Scotland littoral sediment survey

Abstract

Eleven sandy beaches on the east coast of Scotland were surveyed over a period of several years (1977-1981). On each beach, after initial observations were made on the structure, degree of exposure, and the position of any freshwater inflow noted, a simple surveying technique was used to construct profiles measured from a suitable benchmark. Main stations were placed at the estimated levels for high, mid and low tide along the profile transect, with intermediate stations also being inserted; the numbers of these depended on the width of the intertidal zone. At each station one quadrat of 1/16m squared was dug for macrofauna and the sand sieved through a 0.5mm mesh, the residue being preserved in 5% formalin. The sediment was preserved with 60% alcohol and analysed in the Laboratory by dry sieving of the sand fraction. The sorting coefficients and median diameters were calculated and the cumulative curves constructed from the results.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/be5d7840-652b-49be-b563-3dae2b5aada1-1977-81-Eleftheriou-Robertson-east-Scotland-littoral-sediment-survey.csv

name: 1977-81-Eleftheriou-Robertson-east-Scotland-littoral-sediment-survey.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

be5d7840-652b-49be-b563-3dae2b5aada1

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Eleftheriou, Robertson (1988) The intertidal fauna of sandy beaches - a survey of the east Scottish coast

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Marine Recorder

JNCCMNCR10000485

MNCR

Species

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-4.016589473

East bounding longitude

-1.826085543

North bounding latitude

58.50104039

South bounding latitude

56.00716138

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1977-07-01

End position

1981-10-10

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1999-07-26

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