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Metadata: Intertidal Climate Change Monitoring (MarClim)
Abstract:
The MarClim project was established in 2001 to investigate changes that had occurred in rocky intertidal systems within the last 50 years around the UK. MarClim established a low-cost network of sites covering England, Wales and Scotland which provided subsequent annual updates to track how climate influences the marine biodiversity of the British Isles. This dataset consists of the Welsh coverage of MarClim surveys only. Since 2005, Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) and Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has continued working with the MBA, through a Partnership Agreement. The annual survey in Wales forms part of a longer, thirteen-year continuous UK survey. Geographical coverage includes sites throughout north, mid and southwest Wales for which historical data dating back to the 1950s exist, and additional sites where range extensions have been predicted to occur. Thirty seven sites were surveyed in north Wales and seven sites in south Wales. MarClim has been highlighted in a global scientific assessment of the need for scientific research to be appropriately designed to provide fit-for-purpose information at relevant spatial and temporal scales useful to managers of protected areas, statutory bodies and policymakers. The main aims at the outset of the MarClim project in 2001 remain as follows: - To use existing historical information and collect new data on intertidal indicator species from the last 50-100 years to develop and test hypotheses on the impact of climatic change on marine biodiversity in Britain and Ireland. - To forecast future marine community changes on the basis of the Met Office’s Hadley Centre climate change models and the United Kingdom Climate Impacts Partnership’s climate change scenarios. The broad range of species known or likely to be temperature sensitive was covered. - To establish low-cost, fit-for-purpose, methodologies and networks to provide subsequent regular updates and track how climate influences the marine biodiversity of Britain and Ireland. - To provide general contextual time series data to support reporting on the success or otherwise of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, marine aspects of Biodiversity Action Plans, European initiatives including the Habitats, Birds and Water Framework Directives (through appropriate Regulations), and management and monitoring of marine activities and resources, including fisheries and Special Areas of Conservation. - To evaluate whether the climate indicator species used in this work have a wider contribution to make as part of the sustainability indicators that are needed to underpin the UK sustainable development strategy. - To disseminate the results widely, and accordingly elucidate the known impact climate has had on marine biodiversity over the last 100 years, and may have in the future. - To provide a basis for the development of a proposal for European Commission funding to establish a pan-European network with related aims. - To assess and report on the likely consequences of the predicted changes in response to climate for society, for commercial and non-commercial users of the marine environment and the policies and frameworks that conserve, manage and protect marine biodiversity.
Data holder:
Marine Biological Association (MBA)
Natural Resources Wales (NRW)
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| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 8607 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | Intertidal Climate Change Monitoring (MarClim) |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | NRW_DS109815 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313039383135 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | dataset |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2001-01-01 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2024-02-15 |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | annually |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | The MarClim project was established in 2001 to investigate changes that had occurred in rocky intertidal systems within the last 50 years around the UK. MarClim established a low-cost network of sites covering England, Wales and Scotland which provided subsequent annual updates to track how climate influences the marine biodiversity of the British Isles. This dataset consists of the Welsh coverage of MarClim surveys only. Since 2005, Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) and Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has continued working with the MBA, through a Partnership Agreement. The annual survey in Wales forms part of a longer, thirteen-year continuous UK survey. Geographical coverage includes sites throughout north, mid and southwest Wales for which historical data dating back to the 1950s exist, and additional sites where range extensions have been predicted to occur. Thirty seven sites were surveyed in north Wales and seven sites in south Wales. MarClim has been highlighted in a global scientific assessment of the need for scientific research to be appropriately designed to provide fit-for-purpose information at relevant spatial and temporal scales useful to managers of protected areas, statutory bodies and policymakers. The main aims at the outset of the MarClim project in 2001 remain as follows: - To use existing historical information and collect new data on intertidal indicator species from the last 50-100 years to develop and test hypotheses on the impact of climatic change on marine biodiversity in Britain and Ireland. - To forecast future marine community changes on the basis of the Met Office’s Hadley Centre climate change models and the United Kingdom Climate Impacts Partnership’s climate change scenarios. The broad range of species known or likely to be temperature sensitive was covered. - To establish low-cost, fit-for-purpose, methodologies and networks to provide subsequent regular updates and track how climate influences the marine biodiversity of Britain and Ireland. - To provide general contextual time series data to support reporting on the success or otherwise of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, marine aspects of Biodiversity Action Plans, European initiatives including the Habitats, Birds and Water Framework Directives (through appropriate Regulations), and management and monitoring of marine activities and resources, including fisheries and Special Areas of Conservation. - To evaluate whether the climate indicator species used in this work have a wider contribution to make as part of the sustainability indicators that are needed to underpin the UK sustainable development strategy. - To disseminate the results widely, and accordingly elucidate the known impact climate has had on marine biodiversity over the last 100 years, and may have in the future. - To provide a basis for the development of a proposal for European Commission funding to establish a pan-European network with related aims. - To assess and report on the likely consequences of the predicted changes in response to climate for society, for commercial and non-commercial users of the marine environment and the policies and frameworks that conserve, manage and protect marine biodiversity. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Standard protocol is used to evaluate populations of a fixed list of species (broad scale survey), population profiles of Phorcus (Osilinus) lineatus, Steromphala (Gibbula) umbilicalis and Patella spp. and photographs of barnacles for analysis of barnacle species proportions. Surveys are carried out by staff from the MBA, NRW HQ and Skomer staff. Records were based on a fixed list of key species chosen for their relevance to climate change (southern and northern distribution, non-native and, characterising species). Semi-quantitative SACFOR abundance scores are recorded for a suite of 87 species of invertebrates and macroalgae, including nineteen non-native species. |
| Additional information | This describes relevant references to the data e.g. reports, articles, websites plus other useful information not captured elsewhere. | The MarClim time-series dataset was developed by Mieszkowska, Burrows and Hawkins of the MarClim team as Good Environmental Status Indicators for the MSFD, with the full report published in 2014: http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-6813. The MarClim time-series is being adopted by the INSHORE International Network for the Study of Rocky Shore Ecosystems as the global standard http://rockyinshore.org/about/. The MarClim project draws on data from A.J. Southward 1950-1987, S.J. Hawkins 1980-2001, Rocky Shore Surveillance Group - R. Bowman, M.A. Kendall and J.R. Lewis 1964-1987, Anglesey Coastal Surveillance Unit - E. Jones CCW 1974- 1984 and R. Herbert 1993- 2001. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Species distribution |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | species distribution | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | long term data | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Osilinus | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | barnacles | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | climate change (climatic change) | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | surveillance | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Gibbula | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Patella | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | marine biology (subtidal biology) (littoral biology) (sublittoral biology)(intertidal biology)(see also seashore) | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | non-native species | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Macroalgae and seagrass taxonomy-related counts | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.513067 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -2.608865 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 51.240829 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -5.777741 |
| Regional sea | benthic boundary layer | |
| Wales (WLS) | ||
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | Natural Resources Wales (NRW) | |
| Delivery point | Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales | |
| enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk | ||
| URL | http://naturalresources.wales/?lang=en | |
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | Marine Biological Association (MBA) | |
| Delivery point | Marine Biological Association (MBA), The Laboratory, Citadel hill, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2PB, UK | |
| sec@mba.ac.uk | ||
| URL | www.mba.ac.uk | |
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | Natural Resources Wales (NRW) | |
| Delivery point | Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales | |
| enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk | ||
| URL | http://naturalresources.wales/?lang=en | |
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | Marine Biological Association (MBA) | |
| Delivery point | Marine Biological Association (MBA), The Laboratory, Citadel hill, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2PB, UK | |
| sec@mba.ac.uk | ||
| URL | www.mba.ac.uk | |
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | Natural Resources Wales (NRW) | |
| Delivery point | Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales | |
| enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk | ||
| URL | http://naturalresources.wales/?lang=en | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) | |
| Delivery point | Countryside Council for Wales, Maes y Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW | |
| enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk | ||
| URL | http://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk/splash?orig=/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Marine Biological Association (MBA) | |
| Delivery point | Marine Biological Association (MBA), The Laboratory, Citadel hill, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2PB, UK | |
| sec@mba.ac.uk | ||
| URL | www.mba.ac.uk | |
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH) | |
| Delivery point | Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH), Marine Biological Association of the UK, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB | |
| Dash.enquiries@mba.ac.uk | ||
| URL | http://www.dassh.ac.uk | |
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | Natural Resources Wales (NRW) | |
| Delivery point | Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales | |
| enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk | ||
| URL | http://naturalresources.wales/?lang=en | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20.1 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 20.2 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | This states any limitations on access to the data. Multiple occurences are allowed here. One entry shall be from the INSPIRE Metadata registry and the other free text should be part of the resource `Have specific limitations`. | This data is jointly owned by NRW and MBA. There are no access restrictions to this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely. |
| no limitations | ||
| 21.1 Conditions for Access and Use - Use constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 21.2 Conditions for Access and Use - Other constraints | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | © CNC/NRW 2013 and MBA 2013. There are no use restrictions on this data. Recipients may re-use, reproduce, disseminate this data free of charge in any format or medium, provided they do so accurately, acknowledging both the source and the copyright of NRW/ MBA and do not use it in a misleading context. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose, that dissemination or publishing does not result in duplication and that it is fairly interpreted. Advice on interpretation should be sought where required. To avoid re-using old data, users should periodically obtain the latest version from the original source. All requests for the data held in Marine Recorder will be referred back to DASSH. |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Documents |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2014-03-31 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2014-03-31 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-19 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2026-03-03 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 3.1.2 |