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Mary Mowat
British Geological Survey (BGS)
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2005 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA6 Technical Report - Synthesis of Information on the Benthos of SEA6 Clyde Sea Area
2005-07-08
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BGS_SEA_79
British Geological Survey
This report is a contribution to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA6) conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change). This report provides a synthesis of current knowledge of the benthic communities and seabed habitats in the Clyde Sea, which abuts the northern end of the SEA6 area. The Clyde Sea is a fjordic system consisting of drowned, glacially over-deepened, valleys separated by sills. The southern limit of the area, and the ultimate sill for the Clyde Sea lochs, is formed by a broad sill termed the Great Plateau. The Great Plateau is predominantly less than 50 m deep and is overlooked by the volcanic plug of Ailsa Craig.
The report is presented in the context of the hydrography and sedimentology of the area. The focus is on dominant species and broad descriptions of community types (biotopes). It also reviews existing major human activities in the area that are currently affecting the benthos.
Paul Henni
British Geological Survey (BGS)
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Edinburgh
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UK
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Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
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NDGO0001
Fauna abundance per unit area of the bed
Fish catch statistics
Habitat characterisation
Habitat extent
Industrial activity
Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance
SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
2011-03-25
revision
Geology
Habitats and biotopes
Species distribution
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
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crust
sediment
SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages
2008-06-01
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The SEAs data were produced as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme; Crown Copyright, all rights reserved. The DECC SEA must be acknowledged in any maps or publications that make use of the data. All the data files are freely available to the public. The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS. BGS (NERC) has been contracted by DECC to publish SEA datasets on its behalf. All intellectual property rights (including , without limitation, copyrights, database rights and all other rights which subsist or may at any time in the future subsist in the Dataset(s)) in the Dataset(s) ('Intellectual Property Rights') are owned by DECC (formerly the Department of Trade and Industry, and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform). BGS has been authorised by DECC to use SEA datasets for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit basis'. BGS has been authorised by DECC to pass on SEA datasets to third parties so that they can use them for all purposes but on a 'not-for-profit' basis.
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SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer
2006-01-01
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Irish Sea
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51.7
55.3
2005-01-01
2005-01-01
http://www.offshore-sea.org.uk/site/index.php
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/sea/home.html
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal
The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal provides free access to available data and reports which have been produced through the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change SEA process. The site is run and managed by BGS on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Many files can be downloaded directly from this website. Those that are too large to download can be ordered via the website for postal delivery from BGS.
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The report was prepared by the Scottish Association for Marine Science. The report was compiled using various sources and published literature.