Marine Records from Pembrokeshire Marine Species Atlas

doi:10.15468/42yudm

Marine Records from Pembrokeshire Marine Species Atlas

Citation

Natural Resources Wales (2017). Marine Records from Pembrokeshire Marine Species Atlas. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/42yudm accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-07-22.

Description

An atlas of marine species for Pembrokeshire including flora and fauna, intertidal and sublittoral data, funded by the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW). It is a collation of data from various CCW and third party sources (both published and unpublished) that cover Pembrokeshire, held within 79 surveys. This is a historical collation which is not being updated. The data includes all records from the Dale Fort Marine Fauna survey plus additional data from subsequent and prior surveys. Data that are included in the Marine Nature Conservation Review (MNCR) database have been excluded from this dataset to avoid duplication. As of April 1st 2013, all of the Countryside Council for Wales’ (CCW) and Environment Agency Wales’ (EAW) data is held and managed by Natural Resources Wales (NRW).

Purpose

The purpose of this data capture was to collate and make accessible all historical marine species data for Pembrokeshire between 1899 and 1998.

Sampling Description

Quality Control

The data is historic and Natural Resources Wales cannot guarantee its accuracy or validity. However, those data which were collated by Dale Rostron under contract to CCW (1997) was subject to basic validation, including the checking of all positional information against appropriate maps/charts.

Method steps

Various survey techniques were employed in order to collect the data see individual survey metadata for more information.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

originator
Natural Resources Wales
Maes y Ffynnon
Bangor Gwynedd
LL57 2DW
email: NBNGatewayAdministrator@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk
homepage: https://naturalresources.wales/splash?orig=/

metadata author
Natural Resources Wales
Maes y Ffynnon
Bangor Gwynedd
LL57 2DW
email: NBNGatewayAdministrator@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk
homepage: https://naturalresources.wales/splash?orig=/

distributor
NBN Atlas
Broadway Business Centre, 32a Stoney Street, Lace Market
Nottingham
NG1 1LL
Nottinghamshire
GB
email: admin@nbnatlas.org

administrative point of contact
email: NBNGatewayAdministrator@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk