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The Habitats Directive establishes that the management of Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) should aim to achieve the favourable conservation status of habitat and species features listed within its Annex I and Annex II. For SACs in Wales, the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) is therefore required to report on a regular basis on whether features are in favourable conservation status. There were two purposes for this data capture: - To provide an inventory and distribution map of selected biotopes present to use as a reference condition for the rocky shore habitat communities in the SAC. - To describe gross changes in these features since the Phase 1 survey (1999-2001) to give some indication of their stability. The rocky shore areas that lies within the SAC includes a number of rockpool, overhang and cave features that are considered to be nationally important biotopes and/or Rare or Scarce in Wales and others that are considered to be important for their biodiversity. These potentially species rich rocky habitats were therefore surveyed to provide an inventory of these sub features for future survey work. The confidence in this data is high as surveys were carried out by a team of experienced marine biologists.
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| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 1857 |
| 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 Monitoring of Rockpools, Caves and Overhangs in Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries Special Area of Conservation (SAC) in 2007 |
| Alternative title | The purpose of alternative title is to record any additional names by which the dataset may be known. | 2007 CCW/ASML Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries SAC Rockpool and Overhang monitoring MRCCW16300000008, Gwaith monitro rhynglanwol ar byllau glan mor, ogofau a gordoeon yn ACA Bae Caerfyrddin ac Aberoedd yn 2007 |
| 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. | 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313131313830 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | 111180 |
| 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 | 2007-06-11 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2007-06-15 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
| 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'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | The Habitats Directive establishes that the management of Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) should aim to achieve the favourable conservation status of habitat and species features listed within its Annex I and Annex II. For SACs in Wales, the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) is therefore required to report on a regular basis on whether features are in favourable conservation status. There were two purposes for this data capture: - To provide an inventory and distribution map of selected biotopes present to use as a reference condition for the rocky shore habitat communities in the SAC. - To describe gross changes in these features since the Phase 1 survey (1999-2001) to give some indication of their stability. The rocky shore areas that lies within the SAC includes a number of rockpool, overhang and cave features that are considered to be nationally important biotopes and/or Rare or Scarce in Wales and others that are considered to be important for their biodiversity. These potentially species rich rocky habitats were therefore surveyed to provide an inventory of these sub features for future survey work. The confidence in this data is high as surveys were carried out by a team of experienced marine biologists. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Locations of recorded rockpools, overhangs and caves in Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries SAC were compiled from the CCW Phase 1 database. Records were grouped by geographic area and GPS units and maps were used by the survey teams to navigate to the recorded position of each feature. If there was no relevant biotope feature present at the recorded position of a Phase 1 survey record but a similar biotope was present in the vicinity, it was assumed that the original record had been inaccurately fixed, so an accurate GPS fix was made and tagged to the original record. If there was no relevant biotope feature present at the recorded position of a Phase 1 survey record and no similar biotope in the vicinity, it was assumed that the biotope was no longer present, if the surveyors found additional examples of notable rockpools, overhangs or caves, an accurate GPS fix was taken and in-situ records made in the same way as all the other records. A brief description was recorded of the habitat and communities within each feature e.g. size of feature, its level on the shore, dominant and characteristic species/taxa and other notable features of condition or potential anthropogenic impacts. Photographs were taken to illustrate the feature. Phase 1 surveys of intertidal habitats in the SAC were carried out in the SAC between 1999 and 2001, providing detailed mapping of the intertidal biotopes with some information on characterizing species. Phase 1 surveys of intertidal habitats in the SAC were carried out in the SAC between 1999 and 2001 (Brazier et al. 2007) , providing detailed mapping of the intertidal biotopes with some information on characterizing species. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Habitats and biotopes |
| 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 | Zoobenthos generic abundance | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 51.77321675 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -4.18324348 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 51.51470188 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -4.91362731 |
| Regional sea | 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) | |
| Phone | 0300 065 3000 | |
| Delivery point | Maes-y-Ffynnon | |
| Postal code | LL57 2DW | |
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | Natural Resources Wales (NRW) | |
| Phone | 0300 065 3000 | |
| Delivery point | Maes-y-Ffynnon | |
| Postal code | LL57 2DW | |
| 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) | |
| Phone | 0300 065 3000 | |
| Delivery point | Maes-y-Ffynnon | |
| Postal code | LL57 2DW | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Aquatic Survey and Monitoring Ltd (ASML) | |
| Phone | 01388 528 015 | |
| Delivery point | Whitfield Brow | |
| Postal code | DL13 2SZ | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | Any restrictions imposed on accessing the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | © CNC/NRW and © Crown copyright 2009. All rights reserved. Natural Resources Wales, 100019741 Third parties seeking to re-use this data require a Licence issued by NRW. It allows re-use, reproduction and dissemination in any format or medium but only for non-commercial purposes, according to the terms and conditions of the Licence. Those seeking commercial re-use require a commercial licence available from the OS. |
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | ISO restriction code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | otherRestrictions |
| Use constraints | Any restriction on the use of the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | The following data is considered OS derived data and is therefore jointly owned by NRW and the Ordnance Survey. NRW may release, publish or disseminate this data freely; providing recipients are made aware of use restrictions (See general use restrictions). |
| 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. | 2009-03-31 |
| Date of last revision | The most recent date that the resource was revised. | 2009-03-31 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2021-09-02 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | Version 2.3.8 |
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