Identification

Title

Bassurelle Sandbank SAC Monitoring Report 2017

Abstract

Bassurelle Sandbank Special Area of Conservation (SAC) is a Marine Protected Area (MPA) located in the Dover Strait, 30 km south of the Dungeness peninsula within the ‘Eastern English Channel’ Charting Progress 2 (CP2) sea area. The site was designated to protect the Annex I Habitat ‘Sandbanks which are slightly covered by seawater all the time’. This monitoring report is informed by data acquired during the first Sentinel (Type 1) monitoring survey carried out at the Bassurelle Sandbank SAC in 2017 and will form part of the ongoing time series data for this MPA. The report describes the extent and distribution of the topographical sandbank and supporting habitat and determines the structural and functional attributes of this feature. It also compares sediment composition and biological assemblages to observations made during the habitat verification survey in 2013.

Resource type

publication

Resource locator

https://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/6b2ba174-b21a-4d70-8600-cf056a15e7ec/JNCC-Cefas-36-FINAL-WEB.pdf

name: JNCC/Cefas Partnership Report No. 36: Bassurelle Sandbank SAC Monitoring Report 2017

Unique resource identifier

code

6b2ba174-b21a-4d70-8600-cf056a15e7ec

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

JNCC Publications

Offshore Seabed Survey

Seabed Habitats and Geology

2051-6711

JNCCCEFAS reports

Marine

Marine Habitat Mapping

Marine protected area

JNCC-CEFAS 36

Habitats Directive - Annex I

Bassurelle Sandbank SAC

Geographic location

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East bounding longitude

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South bounding latitude

0.0

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

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End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-12

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

This work was delivered by Cefas and JNCC on behalf of the Marine Protected Areas Survey Coordination & Evidence Delivery Group (MPAG) and sponsored by Defra.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Acrobat Portable Document Format

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence 3.0

Limitations on public access

no limitations

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Communications, JNCC

email address

communications@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Communications, JNCC

email address

communications@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-12-11

Metadata language