Broadscale survey and mapping of seabed biota in Loch Creran, Argyll

A broadscale benthic survey of Loch Creran was carried out in 1998-1999. The primary objective of the study was to map the sublittoral habitats and delimit biotopes. AGDS was used, ground-truthed by grab sampling, ROV, diver video and stills photography.

Alternate title: GB000356

Alternate title: Files prefixed with Creran_biotope only

Date (Publication): 2007-05-01

Edition date: 2007-05-01

Purpose: Nature conservation ; Research

Credit: Black, K.D., Hughes, D.J., Provost, P.G. and Pereira, P.M.F. (2000) Broadscale survey and mapping of seabed biota in Loch Creran, Argyll. Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report F98AA408

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Scottish Natural Heritage	Unknown	enquiries@snh.gov enquiries@snh.gov.uk	Point of contact

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Habitats

Place

Minches & West Scotland

Use limitation: Data may only be used with permission from, and according to any conditions imposed by, the data owner(s)

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 40000

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Oceans

Begin date: 1998-11-01

End date: 1999-02-28

Reference system identifier: OSGB36

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Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Scottish Natural Heritage\| Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Group, InvernessCoastal and Marine Ecosystems Group	Dylan Todd	dylan.todd@snh.gov dylan.todd@snh.gov.uk	Point of contact

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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://www.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/access-data/launch-map-viewer/?zoom=12&center=-5.33226,56.53267&layerIds=502&baseLayerId=1&activeFilters=NobwRANghgngpgJwJIBMwC4CsAGATAGjADMBLCAF0VQwBYAOQ0ixAGQHs2BrAVwAdUAzhmABdRmUoIAKnAAe5DGADiAIWzqAzJgBsYAL4igA	EMODnet Seabed Habitats Map Viewer
OGC:WMS	https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_view_maplibrary/wms?	gb000356
OGC:WFS	https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_open_maplibrary/wfs?	gb000356
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://files.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/data/EMODnetSBHsurvey_GB000356.zip	EMODnet Seabed Habitats download

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: Survey technique(s): Diver video ; ROV ; Diver survey ; AGDS ; Grabs

Description: Classification scheme: MNCR

Description: Classification scheme details: Classified according to MNCR 97.06 scheme with some local modification

Description: Survey technique details: RoxAnn 200kHz transducer with a Koden CVS-821 sounder; Van Veen 0.1m2 grab; B&W infra-red ROV; hand-held video camera & Nikon 35mm stills camera.

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
			Principal investigator

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File identifier: eaacd863-31d5-4e23-94fe-d50474a7a91f XML

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: GB000491

Date stamp: 2020-01-15T11:59:28

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Scottish Natural Heritage	Unknown	enquiries@snh.gov enquiries@snh.gov.uk	Point of contact

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