Intertidal Monitoring of Boulders Habitat in the Menai Strait and Colwyn Bay Special Area of Conservation (SAC) 2009
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. To do this CCW has developed a programme of feature condition monitoring.In Menai Strait & Conwy Bay SAC the relevant Annex I intertidal habitat features are Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide and Reefs. Specific areas of interest include areas of tide-swept bedrock and boulders and areas of tide-swept Fucus serratus on mixed sediment along the Menai Strait. The overriding objective of the survey was to establish the reference condition for the Menai Strait & Conwy Bay SAC, using established monitoring stations (and establishing additional monitoring stations) to describe natural and unnatural changes in the communities. This will enable the development of conservation objectives for the appropriate management of the features of the SAC. This data was collected to build on the surveys conducted in 2005, 2007 and 2008 to further test and develop monitoring methodology and collect monitoring data.
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- NRW_DS115074
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- Gwaith monitro rhynglanwol ar gynefin clogfeini llanwol yn ACA Y Fenai a Bae Conwy yn 2009
- 2009 CCW / ASML Menai Strait and Conwy Bay SAC boulder monitoring Britannia Bridge and Felinheli MRCCW16300000021
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A survey strategy and methodology for the Menai Strait tide-swept boulder sites was developed by ASML and CCW for the 2007 survey and expanded to Felinheli for the 2008 survey. Tide-swept boulder habitats which had been studied in 2005 (both sites) and 2007 (Britannia Bridge only) were surveyed. In-situ recording of all species on a minimum of 5 boulders at each sampling stations was undertaken. Boulders were previously studied at Britannia Bridge in 2005 and 2007 and at Felinheli in 2007.
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- 2010-11-30
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- benthic boundary layer
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[A] Digital versions of the contract report: Microsoft Word document(s); and an equivalent Adobe Portable Document Format version. [B] Excel spreadsheets of data - Raw data for 2009, including sample and species information. [C] Marine Recorder file [MRCCW16300000021] [D] Photographs of the site and stations
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A survey strategy and methodology for the Menai Strait tide-swept boulder sites was developed by ASML and CCW for the 2007 survey and expanded to Felinheli for the 2008 survey. Tide-swept boulder habitats which had been studied in 2005 (both sites) and 2007 (Britannia Bridge only) were surveyed. In-situ recording of all species on a minimum of 5 boulders at each sampling stations was undertaken. Boulders were previously studied at Britannia Bridge in 2005 and 2007 and at Felinheli in 2007.
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- 2008-06-01
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- boulders
- underboulder
- Menai Strait and Conwy Bay SAC
- intertidal
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- Date (Publication)
- 2023-12-31
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- Macroalgae and seagrass taxonomy-related counts
- Zoobenthos taxonomy-related counts
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- 2021-01-06
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Intertidal SAC monitoring Menai Strait and Conwy Bay SAC : June 2009
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There are no access restrictions to this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.
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© CNC/NRW 2010 There are no use restrictions on this data. Recipients may re-use, reproduce, disseminate this data free of charge in any format or medium, provided they do so accurately, acknowledging both the source and NRW's copyright, and do not use it in a misleading context. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose, that dissemination or publishing does not result in duplication, and that it is fairly interpreted. Advice on interpretation should be sought where required. To avoid re-using old data, users should periodically obtain the latest version from the original source.
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- 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313135303734 XML
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- English
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Across Wales Intertidal Monitoring Survey
NRW_DS109834
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- 2024-12-09T12:33:25.714Z
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1.0