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Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) global positioning system (GPS) locations of survey quadrats in saltmarsh and mudflat habitats

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Environmental Information Data Centre
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18 September 2026
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Summary

The dataset details global positioning system (GPS) locations recorded for survey quadrats at six UK saltmarsh sites. Three of the sites were in Morecambe Bay, North West England and three of the sites were in Essex, South East England, each of these sites consisted of a salt marsh area and adjacent mudflat area. Each site comprised 22 quadrats on the unvegetated mudflat and 22 quadrats on the salt marsh. The locations indicated by this dataset correspond to the south-east corner of the quadrats which were 1m square and oriented with their sides aligned North-South and East-West. This data was collected as part of Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS): NE/J015644/1. The project was funded with support from the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme. BESS is a six-year programme (2011-2017) funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the UK's Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e07386ba-f7a8-490d-99f7-1ce1ae14e95d

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
15 September 2026
Harvest GUID
e07386ba-f7a8-490d-99f7-1ce1ae14e95d
Extent (Latitude)
54.25° to 51.5°
Extent (Longitude)
-3° to 1°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2016-02-29
Dataset reference date (creation)
2013-08-31
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
© University of Cambridge
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng