Identification

Title

Species point records from 1977 SWBSS Ramsey sublittoral survey

Abstract

The survey describes the range of sublittoral habitats and populations of plants and animals present around Ramsey Island and the offshore rocks. Systematic survey sites were located on Ordnance Survey grid intercepts of the coast and at selected sites. Stations were placed at depths below Chart Datum of 0,2,5,7.5,10,12.5,15 and 20 m along each survey line. In addition descriptive surveys were carried out by spot dives, drift dives and with a towed sledge. 115 stations at 18 sites were surveyed. The substrate present around Ramsey were found to be predominantly of clean stable rock. There was a marked zonation of species with depth and different populations were found on the west and east side of the island due to wave and tide exposure differences. Several species of algae and animals at or near the northern limits of their recorded distributions or of special interest because of their rarity were recorded. Full species lists are given for the sites surveyed in addition to substrate and habitat data. Records currently considered sensitive have been removed from this dataset.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/a88c5214-3fa6-4901-be6c-0d11e7e7cd22-1977-SWBSS-Ramsey-sublittoral-survey.csv

name: 1977-SWBSS-Ramsey-sublittoral-survey.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

a88c5214-3fa6-4901-be6c-0d11e7e7cd22

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Hiscock (1978) South-west Britain sublittoral survey. Field survey of sublittoral habitats and species around Ramsey.

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Marine Recorder

JNCCMNCR10000067

MNCR

Species

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-5.410451771

East bounding longitude

-5.311623309

North bounding latitude

51.90560617

South bounding latitude

51.84539382

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1977-07-31

End position

1977-08-12

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2007-04-16

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