2013 Natural England Verification Survey of Intertidal Sediments within the Stour & Orwell Estuaries rMCZ

Aerial imagery and OS mapping was digitised to produce baseline maps of biotope boundaries. The maps were annotated in the field to identify biotopes and boundaries as well as significant features. In addition, intertidal sediment cores were taken at 16 stations (0.01m2 cores 3 replicates at each station) distributed throughout the Cumbria Coast rMCZ at the low, mid and high shore, in order to assess the benthic species present, along with an additional sample for Particle Size Analysis. Samples were sieved over a 0.5mm sieve. Sediment scrape samples were also taken at 4 stations at the midshore for Tributyl tin, heavy metal and organic contaminant analysis. The Phase II quantitative survey of intertidal rocky reefs comprised of 9 quadrat sites per transect with 3 replicate quadrats at each low, mid and upper shore zone or the main biotope present. Percentage cover of species present within each 0.25m2 quadrat was recorded. The methods used for data collection and processing followed protocols and standards for biotope mapping and sampling. MEDIN Data Guideline for sediment sampling by grab or core for benthos.

Alternate title: GB003006

Date (Publication): 2013-03-20T00:00:00

Presentation form: Digital map

Purpose: Research, Conservation

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Natural England		enquiries@naturalengland.org enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk	Owner

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Theme

Marine habitat mapping
EUNIS

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Habitats and biotopes
Oceanographic geographical features

Use limitation: None

Access constraints: Copyright

Other constraints: Data available under the Natural England and Ordnance Survey Open Government Licence ( http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/copyright/default.aspx)

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: eng

Character set: UTF8

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Environment

Begin date: 2013-02-27T00:00:00

End date: 2013-03-05T00:00:00

Reference system identifier: WGS 1984

Reference system identifier: EPSG / WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator (EPSG:3857) / 7.4

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ESRI Shapefile	2015

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OGC:WFS	https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_open_maplibrary/wfs?	gb003006
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://files.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/data/EMODnetSBHsurvey_GB003006.zip	EMODnet Seabed Habitats download

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Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Date stamp: 2020-01-15T12:07:31

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Joint Nature Conservation Committee	Graeme Duncan	Graeme.Duncan@jncc.gov Graeme.Duncan@jncc.gov.uk	Point of contact

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