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2021 NatureScot predictive seaduck model within Special Protected Areas Moray Firth and Outer Firth of Forth and St Andrews Bay Complex

In December 2020, a recent focus on the marine environment (Marine special protection areas selection process) included the classification of 12 marine special protection areas (SPAs) in Scotland...

Aquatic carbon and greenhouse gas concentrations in headwater streams draining from natural, drained and restored peatland catchments in the Flow Country, Scotland, September 2008-August 2010

The dataset contains aquatic carbon and dissolved greenhouse gas data collected from 6 headwater stream sampling sites within the UK’s largest tract of blanket bog, the Flow Country of N. Scotland....

2004 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Loch nam Madadh marine features Site Condition Monitoring inaugeration survey

The purpose of this study was to initiate Site Condition Monitoring (SCM) of the Loch nam Madadh SAC qualifying features: large shallow inlet and bays, saline lagoons, intertidal and sublittoral...

2004 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Dornoch Firth cSAC estuarine environments site condition monitoring survey

Grab samples were taken along the length of the Firth from Kincardine to Gizzen Briggs. Drop down video was used, primarily to assess the extent and location of Mytilus edulis. Detailed diver...

2017-2018 North Devon Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) North Devon Species Census

As part of the Coastal Creatures Project a species census across four beaches along the North Devon Coast AONB was undertaken.

2008 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Mousa reef and sea caves habitats Site Condition Monitoring survey

The aim of this study was to initiate site condition monitoring (SCM) of the littoral and sublittoral reefs and sea caves within the Mousa SAC. The purpose of this SCM is: 1) to establish a...

2016 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Sound of Barra underwater video and benthic infaunal grab survey

Benthic habitat survey within, and adjacent to, the Sound of Barra SAC. This work consisted of 35 quantitative drop-down video drift survey sites and 72 infaunal grab samples and granulometry...

2005 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Firth of Lorn SAC rocky reefs site condition monitoring survey

The Firth of Lorn has been selected as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) for the marine feature ‘reefs’, an Annex I habitat under the 1992 Habitats Directive. The chief reason for the...

2001 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Sound of Barra sublittoral habitats joint broad-scale mapping survey

A comprehensive biotope mapping survey of the sublittoral habitats was undertaken in August 2001, by a collaborative research group comprising staff from the University of St Andrews, Heriot-Watt...

2004 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Loch nam Madadh marine features Site Condition Monitoring inaugeration survey

The purpose of this study was to initiate Site Condition Monitoring (SCM) of the Loch nam Madadh SAC qualifying features: large shallow inlet and bays, saline lagoons, intertidal and sublittoral...

2017-2018 North Devon Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) North Devon Species Census

As part of the Coastal Creatures Project a species census across four beaches along the North Devon Coast AONB was undertaken.

2021 NatureScot Distribution Mapping and Baseline Monitoring survey of sea caves around Fair Isle

Survey data were acquired for four sea caves within the Fair Isle MPA for the purposes of condition monitoring. The information included physical data on the location and spatial configuration of...

2008 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Mousa reef and sea caves habitats Site Condition Monitoring survey

The aim of this study was to initiate site condition monitoring (SCM) of the littoral and sublittoral reefs and sea caves within the Mousa SAC. The purpose of this SCM is: 1) to establish a...

2012 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Luskentyre Banks and Saltings SSSI intertidal site condition monitoring survey

Intertidal sediment infauna and epibiota species abundance data and associated habitat descriptors from a baseline survey of the Luskentyre Banks and Saltings SSSI. The main aims of the survey...

2001 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Sound of Barra sublittoral habitats joint broad-scale mapping survey

A comprehensive biotope mapping survey of the sublittoral habitats was undertaken in August 2001, by a collaborative research group comprising staff from the University of St Andrews, Heriot-Watt...

2016 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Sound of Barra underwater video and benthic infaunal grab survey

Benthic habitat survey within, and adjacent to, the Sound of Barra SAC. This work consisted of 35 quantitative drop-down video drift survey sites and 72 infaunal grab samples and granulometry...

2005 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Firth of Lorn SAC rocky reefs site condition monitoring survey

The Firth of Lorn has been selected as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) for the marine feature (reefs) an Annex I habitat under the 1992 Habitats Directive. The chief reason for the selection...

2004 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Dornoch Firth cSAC estuarine environments site condition monitoring survey

Grab samples were taken along the length of the Firth from Kincardine to Gizzen Briggs. Drop down video was used, primarily to assess the extent and location of Mytilus edulis. Detailed diver...

Invertebrate herbivory data across a natural soil temperature gradient in Iceland from May-July 2017

This is a dataset of environmental data, vegetation cover, and community- and species-level invertebrate herbivory, sampled at 14 experimental soil plots in the Hengill geothermal valley, Iceland,...

2004 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Loch Paible (Balranald Bog and Loch nam Feithean SSSI) intertidal sediment flats site condition monitoring survey

Loch Paible lies within the Balranald Bog and Loch nam Feithean SSSI on the west side of North Uist. The site includes terrestrial and freshwater features of national importance. The marine feature...