2013 Natural England Verification Survey of Intertidal Sediments within the Beachy Head West rMCZ

A Natural England commissoined verification survey of intertidal sediments within the Beachy Head West rMCZ.

Phase I Biotope mapping was carried out across the rMCZ for broad scale habitats where intertidal coarse sediment occurred. Phase II Infaunal sampling was carried out to provide information on the benthic infaunal assemblages and particle size distribution of the study sites by means of core sampling. Sediment surface scrapes were obtained for heavy metals and organic contaminants analysis.

The data was used to produce a EUNIS Level 3 boradscale habitat map of the Beachy Head West 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 6 stations (0.01m2 cores 3 replicates at each station) distributed throughout the Beachy Head West rMCZ, 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 3 stations for Tributyl tin, heavy metal and organic contaminant analysis. 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.

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Alternate title

GB003002
Date (Publication)
2013-03-26T00:00:00
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

Research
Status
Completed
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Natural England

enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk

Owner
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Place

  • Eastern Channel
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)

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Language

eng
Character set
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Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
2013-03-17T00:00:00
End date
2013-03-18T00:00:00
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator (EPSG:3857) / 7.4
Distribution format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

2015
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

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EMODnet Seabed Habitats Map Viewer

OGC:WMS

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gb003002

OGC:WFS

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gb003002

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://files.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/data/EMODnetSBHsurvey_GB003002.zip

EMODnet Seabed Habitats download

Metadata

File identifier
a17fa5bb-c780-479e-ba9f-cff23ef3fd82 XML
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

dataset
Date stamp
2020-01-15T12:09:41
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.uk

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Keywords

EUNIS Marine habitat mapping
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Habitats and biotopes Oceanographic geographical features


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