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  <dc:title xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Seahorse species predicted habitat distributions and associated environmental data layers covering the shelf seas surrounding the UK</dc:title>
  <dc:type xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">dataset</dc:type>
  <dc:identifier xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php?tpc=009_CEFASb4de0cbf-ecd9-411f-9046-ac2c044a4465</dc:identifier>
  <dc:description xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">This dataset contains predicted seahorse habitat distributions for two species 
(*Hippocampus hippocampus *and *H. guttulatus*) and the genus combined 
(Hippocampus hippocampus MAXENT.asc, Hippocampus guttulatus MAXENT.asc and 
Hippocampus sp. MAXENT.asc, respectively). Rasters of the raw predicted 
habitat suitability outputs from the maximum entropy (MAXENT, Phillips et al. 
2006) species distribution model algorithm are provided.

Additionally, the environmental data layers used for modelling the species 
distributions, including distance to seagrass habitat (degrees) (Distance From 
Seagrass.tif), distance to the coastline (DistCo.tif) bathymetry (m) 
(Bathy.tif), minimum winter and maximum summer SST (oC) (Kriging SST Winter 
Min.tif and Kriging SST Summer Max.tif, respectively) and chlorophyll a 
concentration (mg m-3) (Kriging Chla Winter Smooth.tif and Kriging Chla 
Summer Smooth.tif, respectively).

All raster layers are provided in the WGS84 (EPSG::4326) spatial reference 
system. All raster layers are at a gridded resolution of 0.0042 x 0.0042 
degrees. All layers cover the shelf seas surrounding the UK, including the 
English Channel, Celtic Seas, North Sea, and extend into shallow coastal and 
estuarine habitats. Raster layers of predicted habitat suitability are 
provided in ASCI format, whilst environmental predictor layers are provided in 
TIFF format.

This work was prioritised by Natural England&#x2019;s Seahorse Working Group and was 
funded by Natural England. This work was conducted in collaboration with The 
Seahorse Trust who provided the seahorse occurrence data. The information 
provided will support marine spatial planning to reduce the broader impact of 
anthropogenic activities and enable better decision-making to protect these 
sensitive species and their habitats.</dc:description>
  <dc:date xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">20230926 20230417</dc:date>
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