Algarve: Mapping of Marine Biocenoses off the National Underwater Ecological Reserve between Galé and Barra do Ancão (CCMAR-CCDRALG)

The Algarve coast presents a significant portion of territory that is part of the designated National Nature Reserve, in its underwater slope (0 to 30m depth - RENSUB), especially when compared with the equivalent on land. The current digital map presents the EUNIS habitat of the central Algarve RENSUB coast. The covered area is between Galé and Barra do Ancão. The sediment classification was obtained through the interpretation of data from Side Scan Sonar (remote-sensing image), while for the habitat mapping the biological sampling was carried out with beam trawl and underwater visual census.

Alternate title: PT000002

Date (Revision): 2010-12-01T00:00:00

Edition: 2012

Presentation form: Digital map

Purpose: Provide information on the EUNIS Habitat

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Algarve (UAlg-FCT)- Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR)	Pedro Monteiro & Jorge Gonçalves	jgoncal@ualg.pt pmontei@ualg.pt	Author
Regional Hydrological Administration of the Algarve (ARH Algarve)	Sebastião Teixeira	presidencia@arhalgarve.pt	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Theme

Habitat, Biocenosis, Biotope, EUNIS

Place

Algarve, south Portugal, Faro, Albufeira, Portimão, Lagos

Discipline

Habitat Map

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations on public access

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: The access and use is possible with request to the Regional Hydrological Administration of the Algarve (ARH Algarve) and Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR) of the University of Algarve (UAlg/FTC) and Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO)

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Copyright Regional Hydrological Administration of the Algarve (ARH Algarve) and Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR) of the University of Algarve (UAlg/FTC) and Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO)

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 10000

Language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Biota

Begin date: 2005-05-25T00:00:00

End date: 2006-09-07T00:00:00

Vertical extent

Minimum value: 0

Maximum value: -30

Reference system identifier: WGS 1984

Distribution format

Name	Version
Esri Shapefile	ESRI ArcGIS 9.3

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WMS	https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_view_maplibrary/wms?	pt000002
OGC:WFS	https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_open_maplibrary/wfs?	pt000002
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://files.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/data/EMODnetSBHsurvey_PT000002.zip	EMODnet Seabed Habitats download

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Mapping of marine biocenoses off the National Underwater Ecological Reserve between Faro and Ponta da Piedade - CCMAR-CCDRALG

Date (Revision): 2010-10-02

Pass: No

Metadata

File identifier: e6908a35-f5fa-49d3-8ca8-26affb35a7d2 XML

Metadata language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Date stamp: 2026-09-03T10:24:24.1663623Z

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Algarve (UAlg-FCT)- Centre of Marine Science (CCMAR)	Pedro Monteiro & Jorge Gon├ºalves	jgoncal@ualg.pt pmontei@ualg.pt	Point of contact