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Seaweed data for Great Britain and Ireland
Citation
UK National Biodiversity Network, British Phycological Society - Seaweed data for Great Britain and Ireland. https://doi.org/10.15468/v3qlue
Contact:
Guiry, Michael
Availability: This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
Seaweed records for the coasts of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales held by the Biological Records Centre on behalf of the British Phycological Society, which is the primary dataset owner. The majority of the data were collected by members of the British Phycological Society as part of the Marine Algae Recording Scheme (http://www.brc.ac.uk/recording_schemes.asp) and were published in the 2003 atlas (see below). more
The point data were generated using nomenclature supplied from the AlgaeBase database (www.algaebase.org), developed by Prof. M.D. Guiry, Martin Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland. A small number of records are derived from the NCC River Macrophyte Database but the major divisions in the dataset are as follows:
The point data were generated using nomenclature supplied from the AlgaeBase database (www.algaebase.org), developed by Prof. M.D. Guiry, Martin Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland. A small number of records are derived from the NCC River Macrophyte Database but the major divisions in the dataset are as follows:
- 71000 records from the 1985 provisional atlas dataset held at BRC
- 28500 records provided in electronic format from Prof Michael Guiry
- 7600 records input from assorted record cards deposited at BRC since the publication of the 1985 atlas
- 4000 records from the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
- Marine Nature Conservation Review (MNCR) and associated benthic marine data held and managed by JNCC
- Marine Data from DUCHAS as part of MNCR
- Marine Data from Northern Ireland as part of MNCR
- Marine Nature Conservation Review (MNCR) and associated benthic marine data held and managed by CCW
- Marine Nature Conservation Review (MNCR) and associated benthic marine data held and managed by English Nature
- Marine Nature Conservation Review (MNCR) and associated benthic marine data held and managed by Scottish Natural Heritage
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Macroalgae
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Algae, Long-term monitoring, Monitoring, Seaweeds, ANE, British Isles, ANE, Ireland, Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta
Temporal coverage
1750 - 2003
Contributors
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Dataset information:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2009-03-04
Information last updated: 2014-04-14