2007 Outer Wash Marine Habitat Survey for Conservation

The 2007 Natural England Outer Wash Annex I habitat survey provides data from a variety of marine environments in the Outer Wash region. It is a collation of surveys conducted to specified standards for purposes including Marine Conservation Zone verification, condition assessments, and surveys of Natura 2000 site features. The dataset likely contains information on benthic and intertidal habitats to support environmental evidence gathering.

Use Cases

• Verifying recommended Marine Conservation Zone boundaries based on habitat survey data.
• Assessing the condition of Annex I habitats for Natura 2000 site management.
• Analyzing benthic grab sample results to understand seabed ecology.
• Mapping intertidal features for coastal zone planning and monitoring.

Strengths

• Surveys follow established methodologies and are carried out to specified standards, suggesting consistent data collection.
• The dataset's cross-platform presence on eu_open_data and uk_data signals its recognized importance for marine environmental evidence.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, column names, file format, and license are unknown across all sources, limiting usability.
• The 'last updated' date of 2026-07-13 appears to be a future date, indicating a potential metadata error or placeholder value.
• The dataset description is repeated verbatim across platforms, offering no additional technical detail.

Provenance

Source

Natural England

Collection Method

Collation of field surveys including intertidal surveys and benthic grab surveys.

Time Range

2007

Freshness

2026-07-13 12:08:05.330913

Geography

Outer Wash region, marine environments