Map of seabed habitats and associated communities in Sines coastal area (SW Portugal)

The map shows the seabed habitat types and associated benthic communities distribution in the coastal area south of Sines (SW Portugal), which is partly included in the Special Protection Area (PTZPE0015) of the Natural Park of Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina. The data were obtained during the new survey crarried out in 2011 within the framework of the MeshAtlantic Project.

The survey area is an area of moderate energy under the influence of wave action and tidal currents. The northern near shore area is partially exposed to the outfalls of a thermoelectric powerplant. Physical and biological datasets were combined aiming at matching the habitat classes defined in the EUNIS classification.

Alternate title: PT010001

Date (Creation): 2013-11-01T17:16:00

Edition: version 1.0

Presentation form: Digital map

Purpose: Nature conservation; regulation of human activities; research

Status: On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Instituto Portugu├¬s do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA)	Victor Henriques	victorh@ipma.pt	Author
Instituto Portugu├¬s do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA)	Miriam Tuaty Guerra	mguerra@ipma.pt	Author

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Place

Sines, Portugal

Theme

Marine habitat mapping

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Habitats and biotopes

Use limitation: Not for commercial use. Any other use strictly under permission from, and according to any conditions imposed by the coordinator IPMA.

Access constraints: Copyright

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Any requests for use must be sent to victorh@ipma.pt or mguerra@ipma.pt victorh@ipma.pt Any requests for use must be sent to victorh@ipma.pt or mguerra@ipma.pt mguerra@ipma.pt

Other constraints: Reference citation is required in the bibliography.

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 25000

Language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Environment

Begin date: 2011-08-11T12:08:00

End date: 2011-08-16T00:00:00

Vertical extent

Minimum value: -50

Maximum value: 0

Supplemental Information: This product was developed in the framework of the MeshAtlantic project by the IPMA partner. The data used were:

Survey data: grain size data, subtidal benthic macro- and megauna of soft sediments, acoustics remote sensing (AGDS and Sidescan sonnar).

Data type: qualitative and quantitative (abundance).

Depth interval: 0 to -50m.

Data periods: 2011

Geographic area: The coastal area south of Sines (SW Portugal), which is partly included in the Special Protection Area (PTZPE0015) of the Natural Park of Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina.

Data sources: Databases generated in the frameworks of the MeshAtlantic project

Methods:

a) acoustics remote sensing (AGDS and Sidescan sonnar);

b) Sampling: Smith_McIntyre grab (0.1 m2);

c) Macrofauna abundance data analysis performed in the statistical software PRIMER v6.

Reference citation:

Henriques, V., Guerra, M.T., Mendes, B. & Gaud├¬ncio, M.J., 2013. Map of seabed habitats and associated communities in Sines coastal area (SW Portugal) according to the EUNIS classification. PT010001. Instituto Portugu├¬s do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Lisboa, Portugal.

Reference system identifier: WGS 1984

Distribution format

Name	Version
Shapefile	ESRI ArcGIS 9.2

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://files.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/data/EMODnetSBHsurvey_PT010001.zip	EMODnet Seabed Habitats download

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Creation): 2013-11-01

Explanation: The datasets were analysed in conformance with the standards defined in the framework of the MeshAtlantic Project

Pass: Yes

Metadata

File identifier: 7e753090-000c-43a4-a5ac-efccb3245c93 XML

Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Date stamp: 2020-01-15T12:33:02

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Instituto Portugu├¬s do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA)	Victor Henriques	victorh@ipma.pt	Author

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