Loch Moidart and Shiel Woods SAC Intertidal Sediment Monitoring Baseline

Scottish Natural Heritage data from the Loch Moidart and Shiel Woods Special Area of Conservation. The project carries out site condition monitoring of intertidal sediment flats, establishing a biological baseline from 16 relocatable stations along 5 transects. The baseline survey was inaugurated in 2003 to facilitate future assessment and condition judgement.

Use Cases

• Establishing a biological baseline for future environmental assessment based on the 2003 survey.
• Identifying deterioration in mudflat condition based on repeated surveys of the 16 stations.
• Judging the current condition of the SAC feature based on biological and environmental diversity data.
• Analyzing trends in intertidal sediment flats based on the representative transect surveys.

Strengths

• Provides a defined baseline from a 2003 survey, enabling temporal comparison.
• Survey design includes 16 relocatable stations across 5 transects, aiming for representative coverage.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Site condition monitoring surveys along transects at relocatable stations.

Time Range

Baseline from 2003.

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Loch Moidart and Shiel Woods Special Area of Conservation, Scotland.