Biotope of the submerged sea caves of Sagres (South of Portugal-Algarve)

Under the MeshAtlantic project (2010-2013) the habitat of an area off the south coast of Portugal (Sagres) was classified. The biological data from the caves habitat was gathered from surveys carried out during 2012 and 2013. Sampling was performed using underwater visual census and Video transect along the cave. Historical data were also analised.

Alternate title: PT000013

Date (Creation): 2012-02-10T18:21:00

Edition: 2012

Presentation form: Digital map

Purpose: Provide information on the EUNIS Habitat

Status: Under development

Point of contact

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

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Theme

Habitat, Biocenosis, Biotope, EUNIS, Caves

Place

Algarve, south Portugal, Sagres

Discipline

Habitat Map

Use limitation: 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 nstituto Espa├▒ol de Oceanograf├¡a (IEO)

Access constraints: License

Use constraints: License

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 25000

Language: eng

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Biota

Begin date: 2011-07-18T18:00:00

End date: 2012-02-10T10:00:00

Vertical extent

Minimum value: 0

Maximum value: -20

Reference system identifier: WGS 1984

Distribution format

Name	Version
Shapefile	ESRI ArcGIS 9.3

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://www.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/resources/mesh-archive/
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	http://gis.ices.dk/geonetwork/srv/en/resources.get?id=533&fname=&access=private
OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map