eddaa7f62b643e99d959ad9f9af8bf81 English dataset Marine GI Data Natural England Natural England +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 pointOfContact 2021-11-08 MEDIN Discovery metadata standard 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 Natural England (NE) 2003-2004 South Wight Maritime European Marine Site Sublittoral Monitoring 2005-11-01 publication NATENG000132 http://www.naturalengland.org.uk Survey conducted by Aquatic Survey and Monitoring Ltd. on behalf of English Nature (EN). This subtidal fieldwork programme aimed to establish a methodology for sampling the sites subtidal features in a way that could be repeated. The project was designed to enable the assessment of the South Wight Maritime cSAC and to compare it's condition with the targets. The results includes an assessment of the range of biotopes and their distribution, community types and species present. Francis Bunker Aquatic Survey and Monitoring Ltd. fbunker@marineseen.com originator Christine Howson Aquatic Survey and Monitoring Ltd. dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk originator Tom Mercer Aquatic Survey and Monitoring Ltd. dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk originator Marine GI Data Natural England Natural England +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 Documents Geographic Information System Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Habitats and biotopes Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-01-06 revision Fauna abundance per unit area of the bed Habitat extent Habitat characterisation Macroalgae and seagrass taxonomy-related counts SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary 2009-11-16 revision Accessible under NE and DASSH terms and conditions otherRestrictions Accessible under NE and DASSH terms and conditions English biota biota Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas 2009-06-18 creation Eastern Channel ICES Rectangles 2009-05-01 creation 30E8 ICES Rectangles 2009-05-01 creation 30E9 SeaDataNet vertical extent keywords 2010-01-01 revision inapplicable -1.6164 -0.9943 50.5588 50.7034 2003-07-07 2004-11-03 Marine GI Data Natural England Natural England +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 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265535803_SOUTH_WIGHT_MARITIME_EUROPEAN_MARINE_SITE_SUBLITTORAL_MONITORING_2003_-2004 A link to the web service or dataset dataset This report details a sublittoral survey conducted on behalf of English Nature (EN) based within the South Wight Maritime cSAC. The programme established a methodology for sampling the sites so that this could be repeated in the future. The project aimed to enable comparisons between the conditions observed (in the survey) with the target conditions for the site. A range of methods were established and used. Biotopes and their distribution were assessed using remote video. Each biotope is briefly described and maps with their distributions provided. The species composition of selected biotopes (i.e. kelp forest) were assessed using divers. This involved quantitative sampling using randomly placed quadrats. Semi-quantitative survey methods were also used to provide a broader contextual description. In addition, the species composition data was compared with that from earlier surveys.