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Data resource: 1984 Farnham and Bishop St Mawes Fal Estuary Cornwall Maerl dive transect survey
A voluntary marine conservation area has been declared in the Roseland district, which includes a maerl bed (St Mawes Bank) of considerable scientific interest because it is the only significantly sized bed of live maerl in southern England. This report provides a baseline survey of this conservation area. Starting in 1982, initial spot dives were carried out at different times of the year in order to obtain information on the distribution of maerl. Subsequently two transect lines were laid from a boat across the width of the bed (800m) from the shore towards the Vilt Buoy.
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Data resource: 1984 University of Virginia Cornwall foraminifera and meiofauna on an intertidal mudflat core survey
This study investigates the population density of meiofauna on the intertidal mudflats of the Tamar estuary in Cornwall. Monthly core samples were collected and analysed for meiofaunal specimens. The dataset contains a species list of the organisms found and comparisons in the size of the organisms and the density they were found at the various sample sites along the estuary.
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Data resource: 1987 Wells and Carlisle Plymouth and Solent Marine Strategy Framework Directive Styela clava records - Version 2.0
This dataset has been digitised from two articles used for the MSFD Collating baseline invasive non-indigenous species data for MSFD reporting (Contract Reference ME5223): Wells R (1987) Solent Aliens. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Naturalists’ Trust Newsletter, April 1987, and Carlisle, D. (1954) Styela mammiculata n.sp., a new species of ascidian from the Plymouth area. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 33(2), 329-334.
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Data resource: 1988 - 2022 Capercaillie Annual Lek Monitoring, Raw Data
This dataset contains the raw data of bird records from standard early morning lek surveys between late April and early May. Leks are surveyed using standard methodology and are usually either viewed from a hide or a vehicle. Some sites require walking to look for signs on the ground (this is done after 07:00am to prevent disturbance at crucial time).
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Data resource: 1989 Onwards Previously Occupied Swift Nests, UK
This dataset is intended to be a comprehensive inventory of previously occupied common swift (Apus apus) nests (where swifts were known to nest previously, but no longer do so). It includes records collected as part of various swift mapping projects including The Swift Inventory, The Swift Survey and The Swift Mapper. The aim of these projects was to better understand the reasons for the decline in swifts in the UK, and to help target conservation of swift nest sites. They collated data from a variety of sources, primarily a public request for information and local surveys. Between 2009-2015, records were collected as part of the ‘Swift Inventory’. This was a cooperative project involving the support of Concern for Swifts - Scotland, London's Swifts, Northern Ireland Swifts, the RSPB, Swift Conservation and UK Swifts. The ‘Swift Survey’ then ran from 2016 -2019. This was a national survey, including a website developed by Environmental Resource Management (ERM) to collect data from the public on nesting swifts. From 2020 onwards the ‘Swift Mapper’ tool has been used to collect records. The Swift Mapper is a mapping tool involving RSPB, Natural Apptitude, Swift Conservation, Action for Swifts and Swifts Local Network. Records prior to 2009 were provided by swift conservation groups and RSPB surveys. Accompanying datasets of occupied nests, nest boxes and low-level screaming swifts (probable breeders) are also available on the NBN. This dataset will be updated annually.
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Data resource: 1994-2022 Capercaillie Brood Counts Data, Scotland
This dataset contains records of capercaillie hens and their broods. RSPB and NatureScot agree a list of woodlands to be surveyed each year. Data is also passed on from privtate estates that contract out this work for thier land (e.g. GWCT complete some of these contracts). These surveys take place between July and August using pointer dogs to locate hens with broods in order to monitor productivity. The dataset also contains data on broodless hens and males found during these systematic brood counts.
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Data resource: 1994-2022 Capercaillie Cold Searches Data, Scotland
This dataset contains records of capercaillie and their signs (e.g. droppings, feathers etc) recorded during cold searches for leks between mid-March and late May. Cold searches are done on both a pro-active and re-active basis and take place in potentially suitable capercaillie habitat, that falls outside of the standard lek surveys. This dataset also includes droppings and feathers located during lek surveys (early morning between late April and early May).
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Data resource: 1999 UMBSM/ IUEM/ ICRAM/ MLA Clyde Sea Toothed Dredge Survey
The grab was carried out to obtain deep burrowing fauna The survey investigated the settlement and success of juvenile deep-burrowing fauna located in the top sediment layers. Contract code: EC0000003 1999 University Marine Biological Station, Millport, Marine observatory of the European University Institute of the Sea, ICRAM, Chioggia, Fisheries Research Services, Aberdeen Marine Laboratory Clyde Sea Toothed Dredge Survey
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Data resource: 1999-2001 University Marine Biological Station Millport (UMBSM) Clyde Sea Rapid Methodologies Survey - Version 1.1
The survey aimed to collect epibenthic megafauna to aid in assessing the variabilty and population densities of fauna and trawling impact.The damage load which fauna experience during the process of commercial trawling was investigated.
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Data resource: 1999-2022 Capercaillie Annual Lek Monitoring, Summary Data
This dataset contains the minimum number of males/lek/year summarised from standard early morning lek surveys between late April and early May. Leks are surveyed using standard methodology and are usually either viewed from a hide or a vehicle. Some sites require walking to look for signs on the ground (this is done after 07:00am to prevent disturbance at crucial time).
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Data resource: 1_kr_test
KR Test list
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Data resource: 2000-2004 Davis et al. European distribution of Styela clava
A subset of literature review detailing the European distribution of Styela clava, this subset is limited to the UK records only
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Data resource: 2001-2019 The Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Shore Thing Survey
ShoreThing is a citizen science project carried out between 2001-2019 at locations around the British Isles. Volunteers, primarily from schools and colleges, conducted timed search surveys, looking for species from a predefined list across three coastal habitats: rockpools (RP); boulders/crevices (BC); and open rock (OR).
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Data resource: 2003 Royal Haskoning Ltd Fal Estuary marine ecological grab and core survey
Survey to determine whether maerl extraction is having an effect on the infaunal communities of the maerl beds within the Fal Estuary, Cornwall
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Data resource: 2004 Southward et al. UK habitat and distribution of the warm-water barnacle Solidobalanus fallax (Crustacea: Cirripedia) records - Version 1.5
New records are given of the occurrence of the warm-water barnacle Solidobalanus fallax in Britain and Europe. This barnacle is not found on rocks or stones, but settles on biological substrata, including algae, cnidarians, bivalves, gastropods and crustaceans. It also settles on plastic bags and nets, plastic-coated objects such as crab and lobster pots and octopus pots made of ceramic or plastic.With one exception the species was unrecorded in Europe before 1980; it may have increased in abundance during recent years as a result of rising temperatures.The cyprid larvae, which can metamorphose on plastic Petri dishes, appear to be adapted to seek out ‘low energy’ surfaces. One of the habitats colonized by S. fallax is the sea-fan Eunicella verrucosa, where it seems to have increased in recent years, possibly to the detriment of the cnidarian host. Solidobalanus fallax has the potential to be a serious pest of fish-farming structures to the south of Britain.
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Data resource: 2004-2012 Bishop et al. Occurrence of non-native sessile invertebrates on the English coast
As part of efforts to monitor marine non-native species (NNS) populations, a series of surveys were conducted at 61 marina sites across England and Wales. The data was collected from 2004 to 2012. Only English data is included
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Data resource: 2005 - Ongoing United Kingdom MarLIN Shore Thing timed search results [Archived]
Intertidal species effort-based search undertaken by students (16+) and volunteer groups with support from an ecologist. During the twenty minute timed species search surveyors look for 22 species, 4 non native and 18 climate change indicator species within 1 of 3 habitats: rockpools; boulders, crevices and overhangs; or open rock. Abundance is recorded using a simplified version of SACFORN.
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Data resource: 2008 Graham Saunders Morecombe Bay to Isle of Skye Beach combing, sand sampling, wading, snorkelling and dive ad hoc records - Version 2.0
Graham Saunders visited sites in the North West and described the fauna found there in spring time, comparing it to his observations from 20 years previously (records in this dataset are from 2008 only)
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Data resource: 2009 The Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Wembury Bioblitz Survey - Version 3.0
Bioblitz survey which took place in Wembury. This survey's aim was to record as many species as possible as being present within a set survey area over 24-hours. A variety of different methods were employed, incuding times-species searches, plankton netting, Seine-netting, Pond-dipping with nets, mammal trapping, walkovers, push-netting, grab/core, transect/quadrat, and including Dive and snorkel surveys, although most records were ad-hoc sightings made during the 24 hour survey.
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Data resource: 2009 University of Plymouth Wave Hub, Cornwall towed underwater video baseline benthic survey
This data set comprises of marine epibenthos (74 identified taxa derived from Algae, Annelida, Arthropoda, Bryozoa, Chordata, Cnidaria, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Nemertea, Porifera) quantified in June 2009 at The Wave Hub development zone, a Marine Renewable Energy Installation (MREI) in Hayle, Cornwall, South West UK. At each site a 200 x 0.5 metre transect of the seabed was undertaken. The survey was carried out as a baseline to characterise the seabed fauna present, prior to any subsea infrastructure being deployed at the test site. The design was also replicated to the east and west of the Wave Hub site to provide controls for future impact assessment.
