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This report forms part of the Phase 1 of the delivery for the Nature Inclusive Cable Enhancement and Protection (NICE) project. The NICE project is a project led by Cefas and in partnership with Accelerating Reef Creation (ARC) Marine, that is funded under the Crown Estate's Offshore Wind Evidence and Change (OWEC) Programme. In summary, the NICE protection project aims to provide evidence on the potential ecological impacts (focused on benthic epifauna), of NID technologies for cable protection, compared to existing 'standard' cable protection technologies.
The Crown Estate
Publicly Available
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 7427 |
| 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. | 2023, The Crown Estate, Offshore Wind Evidence and Change Programme, Nature Inclusive Cable Enhancement Programme (NICE) |
| 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. | aaa37e75ceef66a1320b2728dcb69287 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | MDE-100-3902 |
| 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. | series |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2022-12-01 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2023-06-30 |
| 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. | This report forms part of the Phase 1 of the delivery for the Nature Inclusive Cable Enhancement and Protection (NICE) project. The NICE project is a project led by Cefas and in partnership with Accelerating Reef Creation (ARC) Marine, that is funded under the Crown Estate's Offshore Wind Evidence and Change (OWEC) Programme. In summary, the NICE protection project aims to provide evidence on the potential ecological impacts (focused on benthic epifauna), of NID technologies for cable protection, compared to existing 'standard' cable protection technologies. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | 4.1 Search Strategy 4.1.1 Identification of Relevant Evidence Sources Relevant evidence sources were obtained through searches of journal databases (Web of Science, Science Direct, Directory of Open Access Journals), searching Google Scholar, and searching websites of relevance to the review topic, including The Crown Estate Marine Data Exchange, European Subsea Cables Association, Tethys offshore wind and marine renewable knowledge base, the Carbon Trustâ??s UK Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme and the International Cable Protection Committee. Sources advised by the Project Advisory Group (PAG) members and members of the project delivery team were also reviewed. 4.1.2 Search Terms / Parameters for the Search String Search strings were modified to the respective key search database: â?¢ Web of Science - *benth* AND (cabl* OR renewabl*) AND *diversity. â?¢ Science Direct - (benthic OR benthos OR epibenthos) AND (cable OR cabling OR renewable) AND (diversity). â?¢ Google Scholar and Directory of Open Access Journals: o 'benthic and renewable and cable and diversity' o 'cable protection and interaction and benthic' o 'nature inclusive design and offshore wind' â?¢ Searches of relevant organisational websites (The Crown Estate Marine Data Exchange, European Subsea Cables Association, Tethys offshore wind and marine renewable knowledge base) using terms 'benthic', 'renewable' , 'cable' and 'diversity'. 4.1.3 Search Inclusion Criteria Only articles, reports or websites written in English and available electronically were included. If a conference article or thesis had a more recent journal version, then the journal article was included.Research and studies from the UK, from across Europe and globally were included, where relevant. Studies were also required to be within coastal shelf seas and on the Continental Shelf (and not in areas of High Seas and in deeper waters of >2,000 metres (m)). To capture the expansion of the OSW sector and developing knowledge, studies from the last 11 years (2012-2023) were used. The primary focus of the review was offshore renewables (fixed and floating wind), but we have sought to include literature from wave and tidal energy, telecommunication and interconnector cabling sectors, and subsea protection systems utilised in the oil and gas sector. This is due to the breadth and depth of studies for these sectors that are likely of relevance to this review. Subtidal infauna (taxa living with the seabed) and invertebrate epifauna (taxa living on or attached to the seafloor / structures) were the primary focus of this review. However, where studies also included data on benthic fish taxa and macroalgae, this information has been mentioned for completeness in this review. The review scope excluded intertidal marine species and habitats, pelagic fish, elasmobranchs, marine mammals and seabirds. 4.2 Searches The search strategy involved an initial step of searching key scientific databases, Google Scholar and organisational websites, using the applicable search string / terms (see 4.1.1.). Located articles / reports were screened for relevance by title and abstract (using inclusion criteria in section 4.1.2.). This was combined with a snow-balling approach where the citation list of the reviewed article / report (the starting set of articles) evaluated to identify additional relevant articles / reports to be obtained and reviewed. A full review of the relevant articles / reports was then conducted, with key information about the studies (e.g., location, type of cable protection, survey methods, ecological response metrics etc) and key results and conclusions, were extracted and included in this report. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Buildings | |
| 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 | Man-made structures | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Habitat characterisation | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 64 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 4 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 47 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -16 |
| Regional sea | inapplicable | |
| 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 | The Crown Estate | |
| Position name | Marine Data Advisor | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| Delivery point | 16 New Burlington Place | |
| Postal code | W1S 2HX | |
| City | London | |
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| Delivery point | 16 New Burlington Place | |
| Postal code | W1S 2HX | |
| City | London | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Individual name | Cefas Data Manager | |
| Position name | Cefas Data Manager | |
| 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 | The Crown Estate | |
| Phone | +44 020 7851 5000 | |
| Delivery point | 16 New Burlington Place | |
| Postal code | W1S 2HX | |
| City | London | |
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/3902/summary |
| Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk | |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | ISO restriction code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | otherRestrictions |
| 20 Limitations on Public Access – Other constraints | Any restriction on the use of the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | Publicly Available |
| 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. | https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/content/info/terms-of-use |
| 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. | 2023-10-31 |
| Date of last revision | The most recent date that the resource was revised. | 2023-09-30 |
| Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2022-12-01 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2023-10-31 |
| 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 | 2.3.8 |
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