2015 Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Outer Cromarty Firth Intertidal Seagrass Survey

Sampling event
Latest version published by Marine Biological Association on Dec 5, 2023 Marine Biological Association
Publication date:
5 December 2023
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Trial Intertidal seagrass survey at two sites (Udale Bay & Nigg Bay) in the Outer Cromarty Firth, 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 197 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)
197
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
5854
Occurrence 
390

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Versions

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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: d92cb0a5-c670-41cb-87b7-4eeaf3832cb0.  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)

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers d92cb0a5-c670-41cb-87b7-4eeaf3832cb0
https://www.dassh.ac.uk/ipt/resource?r=dasshdt00000454