Identification

Title

Habitat point records from 1988 MNCR minor south-coast inlets in England survey

Abstract

The survey area was on the south coast of Britain, and was divided into four sections:- 1. the harbour and estuary at Yarmouth, at the western end of the Isle of Wight, 2. sections of the shore at the eastern end of the Isle of Wight, from King's Quay to Ryde Sands encompassing Wootton Creek, 3. the estuary at Lymington, on the north Solent shore, 4. the estuary of the River Adur at Shoreham-by-the-sea in West Sussex. The catchment areas of these inlets were primarily rural with some urban influence from the towns nearby. The exception to this was the estuary at Shoreham, which was primarily urban, with some industry on the shores of the lower estuary. All of the inlets concerned were influenced by impacts from the leisure industry, mostly from boating. Lymington in particular is a large yachting centre. Twenty-one sites were visited. All were surveyed littorally, and two were additionally surveyed sublittorally. The shores were all of sediment, as is most common in the English Channel east of Portland. They varied from very fine, silty mud at Lymington, Yarmouth, Wootton Creek and one site in the Adur estuary; to predominantly sand at King' Quay, Ryde Sands, and two sites within the Adur estuary. Three sites also had boulder and cobble shores, one in the estuary at Yarmouth, one at King's Quay, and one in the Adur estuary. One site at Yarmouth was of vertical stone wall, and one site at Lymington was of steeply sloping stone wall. Of the sites surveyed sublittorally, both had substrata of fine sandy mud, with hard substrata provided by wooden piles for mooring. The fauna and flora of the sites were mostly typical of estuarine sites on the south coast of Britain. Muddy substrata were dominated by polychaetes and oligochaetes, with few bivalves and amphipods; slightly sandier sites had more bivalves. Sandy sites were also dominated by polychaetes, but with more bivalves. The cobble sites had a limited variety of algae, with anemones, sponges, ascidians, barnacles, and a mussel bed on one site in the Adur. The nature conservation importance of the areas surveyed has been assessed, with sites and species considered to be of national, regional or local importance identified. Records currently considered sensitive have been removed from this dataset.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/03590901-73b0-43d8-bcde-556ceb9ce9ad-1988-MNCR-minor-south-coast-inlets-in-England-survey.csv

name: 1988-MNCR-minor-south-coast-inlets-in-England-survey.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

03590901-73b0-43d8-bcde-556ceb9ce9ad

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

Johnston (1989) Surveys of harbours, rias and estuaries in southern Britain: minor south coast inlets.

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Marine Recorder

JNCCMNCR10000008

Habitat

MNCR

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-1.535566348

East bounding longitude

-0.251284339

North bounding latitude

50.84850428

South bounding latitude

50.69341306

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1988-09-26

End position

1989-03-25

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2001-08-29

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