2006 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Loch Sunart marine features site condition monitoring survey

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• Published by: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
• Last updated: 31 December 2007
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Summary

The principle purpose of this benthic survey in Loch Sunart SAC and SSSI was to design and initiate a hierarchical monitoring programme for the features of interest within the SSSI and SAC; subtidal and intertidal rocky reefs, Ascophyllum nodosum ecad mackaii (A.mac) beds, and seagrass beds. To achieve this, a combination of remote drop-down video, diver transects, intertidal transects, mapping methodologies, a limited grab survey and diver coring and quadrat sampling techniques were used. Sampling was conducted by Aquatic Survey and Monitoring Ltd. (ASML) for SNH between the 2nd and 20th July 2006 to collect detailed biological information on the seabed species and habitat features present. The video and still photograph images were used to describe the nature of the seabed in terms of the physical structure and the species assemblages.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2020-04-03
• Access contraints: No restrictions on public access
• Harvest GUID: dbd45a58a3d8340f34357d31948a25e1
• Extent: Latitude: 56.7600° to 56.5900°
• Extent: Longitude: -6.0600° to -5.4700°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2007-12-31 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Aquatic Survey and Monitoring Ltd. (originator); Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), Headquaters (custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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Not for navigational use; This survey recorded no species or biotope occurrences that SNH consider as sensitive; all records may therefore be released in response to requests covered by Environmental Information Regulations or Freedom of Information Regulations; additionally its re-use and dissemination is permissible under Open Government Licence terms. Any re-use of this data will acknowledge the copyright owner.