2014 Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Fifth of Forth and Forth Estuary Intertidal Seagrass Survey

Sampling event
Latest version published by Marine Biological Association on Apr 30, 2024 Marine Biological Association
Publication date:
30 April 2024
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Trial Intertidal seagrass survey at several sites in the Fifth of Forth & Forth Estuary, Scotland for EU Water Framework Directive Monitoring using the WFD (Angiosperm) Intertidal Seagrass tool. The tool looks at the species composition of the seagrass bed, the density (as percent cover) and the extent of the seagrass bed.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 158 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
158
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
4245
Occurrence 
300

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

4554: Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Angus Smith Building (SEPA) (2024): 2014 Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Fifth of Forth and Forth Estuary Intertidal Seagrass Survey. v1.1. Marine Biological Association. Dataset/Samplingevent. 10.17031/1759

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Marine Biological Association. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 41763cf3-fe3c-4169-a0fc-7b239406a869.  Marine Biological Association publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by National Biodiversity Network.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Samplingevent

Contacts

4554: Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Angus Smith Building (SEPA)
GB
The archive for marine species and habitats data (DASSH)
Plymouth
GB

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 41763cf3-fe3c-4169-a0fc-7b239406a869
https://www.dassh.ac.uk/ipt/resource?r=dasshdt00000450