Realm: Marine
Climate: Temperate
Biome: Temperate shelf and seas ecoregions
Central latitude: 55.523995
Central longitude: -3.240631
Duration: 38 years, from 1954 to 2000

398501 records

4120 distinct species

Across the time series Asterias rubens is the most frequently occurring species

Methods

This dataset includes the survey data that were collected during the Marine Nature Conservation Review (MNCR) between 1987 and 1998. together with data from surveys commissioned by the Nature Conservancy Council in the 1970s and 1980s and data collected subsequently by JNCC. The MNCR was initiated to provide a comprehensive baseline of information on marine habitats and their associated species around the coast of Britain which would aid coastal zone and sea-use management and to contribute to the identification of areas of marine natural heritage importance. The focus of MNCR work was on benthic habitats (often referred to as biotopes) in intertidal and inshore (typically within 3nm) subtidal areas.The majority of data were collected using methods described in the MNCR Rationale and Methods report (Hiscock 1996). Broadly. this encompassed surveying a range of sites within a geographical area to sample and describe the variety of habitats present (sampling habitats in different substrata. depths. wave exposures. current regimes. salinity regimes and so on). Each habitat was sampled using semi-quantitative recording techniques (SACFOR abundance scales) for recording epibiota on rocky habitats. (http://www.searchnbn.net/datasetInfo/taxonDataset.jsp?refID=5&list=1&sort=false&dsKey=GA000190) Unit of abundance = AggregatedPresence, Unit of biomass = NA

Citation(s)

Ostler, R. "Marine Nature Conservation Review (MNCR) and associated benthic marine data held and managed by JNCC - EurOBIS". Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Centre for Ecology and hydrology, Aberdeenshire, UK. Available at: http://www.emodnet-biology.eu/data-catalog/??module=dataset&dasid=621, accessed 2012.