Species point records from 1977-81 Eleftheriou/Robertson east Scotland littoral sediment survey
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.
dataset
name: 1977-81-Eleftheriou-Robertson-east-Scotland-littoral-sediment-survey.csv
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Eleftheriou, Robertson (1988) The intertidal fauna of sandy beaches - a survey of the east Scottish coast
oceans
Marine
Marine Recorder
JNCCMNCR10000485
MNCR
Species
-4.016589473
-1.826085543
58.50104039
56.00716138
1977-07-01
1981-10-10
publication
1999-07-26
This survey was extracted from a Marine Recorder snapshot.
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