01a57b8cd776c92e4c3b02e19fa5542d English dataset Peter Tinsley Dorset Wildlife Trust Living Seas Manager Enquiries@derc.org.uk pointOfContact 2021-05-26 MEDIN Discovery metadata standard 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700 1990 Southampton Oceanography Centre, The Infauna of the Handfast Point Maerl Bed, Day Grab survey 2013-02-14 publication 1988-06-30 creation 2013-02-14 revision MRLRC00100000536 Survey run by Southampton Oceanography Centre. All these records relate to "Rowe, Sheader, Jensen (1990) The infauna of the Handfast Point maerl bed" A copy of the report is held at English Nature (Dorset Team). This report concentrates solely on the benthic infauna of an area of live maerl in Poole Bay. The maerl bed is concentrated off Handfast Point at the southern end of Studland Bay. A line of 9 sites leading from the maerl bed was used to determine the relationship between the amount of maerl and the composition of the animal communities sampled. A single benthic sample was taken from each of these sites using a Day grab. N.B. No station 26. In addition, ten grab samples were taken from a single site (G3) in the maerl bed in an attempt to collect a greater number of the rarer species.The Day grab sampled an area of 0.1m2. All samples were washed on a 0.5mm sieve and the species retained on the sieve were identified in the lab. Live maerl separated from the samples was dried in an oven at 70oC, then weighed to the nearest 0.1g. Measurements of dead maerl present in individual samples were approximated by sieving through a 1.0mm mesh and removing the remaining small stones before drying as above. This report was originally produced by G.A. Rowe as a dissertation. Through a NCC contribution, the species list was expanded and confirmed and the report up-dated with the assistance of the other authors. The datum of the Lat/longs was not stated in the report, so has been assigned as OSGB in this database. Antony Jensen National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton Senior Lecturer acj@noc.soton.ac.uk originator Martin Sheader National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton Senior Lecturer in Marine Biology soes@noc.soton.ac.uk originator Natural England Data Manager +44 (0)300 060 3900 +44 (0)300 060 2356 Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green York YO1 7PX enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk custodian notPlanned Database Documents Marine Environmental Data and Information Network NDGO0005 Habitats and biotopes Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-01-06 revision Habitats and biotopes INSPIRE THEMES 2011-02-16 creation Marine UNESCO 2003-01-01 creation Biodiversity GEMET 2011-07-06 creation Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance Habitat characterisation SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary 2009-11-16 revision Data is freely available for research or commercial use providing that the originators are acknowledged in any publications produced. otherRestrictions No restrictions to public access English biota biota Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas 2009-06-18 creation Eastern Channel ICES Rectangles 2009-05-01 creation 30E7 ICES Rectangles 2009-05-01 creation 30E8 SeaDataNet vertical extent keywords 2010-01-01 revision unknown -1.9917 -1.8819 50.5892 50.6832 1988-06-29 1988-06-30 Natural England Data Manager +44 (0)300 060 3900 +44 (0)300 060 2356 Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green York YO1 7PX enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk distributor dataset Survey run by Southampton Oceanography Centre. All these records relate to "Rowe, Sheader, Jensen (1990) The infauna of the Handfast Point maerl bed". A copy of the report is held at English Nature (Dorset Team). This report concentrates solely on the benthic infauna of an area of live maerl in Poole Bay. The maerl bed is concentrated off Handfast Point at the southern end of Studland Bay. A line of 9 sites leading from the maerl bed was used to determine the relationship between the amount of maerl and the composition of the animal communities sampled. A single benthic sample was taken from each of these sites using a Day grab. N.B. No station 26. In addition, ten grab samples were taken from a single site (G3) in the maerl bed in an attempt to collect a greater number of the rarer species.The Day grab sampled an area of 0.1m2. All samples were washed on a 0.5mm sieve and the species retained on the sieve were identified in the lab. Live maerl separated from the samples was dried in an oven at 70oC, then weighed to the nearest 0.1g. Measurements of dead maerl present in individual samples were approximated by sieving through a 1.0mm mesh and removing the remaining small stones before drying as above. This report was originally produced by G.A. Rowe as a dissertation. Through a NCC contribution, the species list was expanded and confirmed and the report up-dated with the assistance of the other authors. The datum of the Lat/longs was not stated in the report, so has been assigned as OSGB in this database.