2015 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) St. Kilda sea caves site condition monitoring survey

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• Last updated: 24 June 2025
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The purpose of this survey of St. Kilda SAC sea caves, undertaken between the 15th and 17th August 2015, was to initiate site condition monitoring (SCM). The objectives of SCM were to establish a baseline biological data set that would facilitate the assessment of the condition of habitats in the future and to allow a judgement to be formed on the current condition of these habitats in the light of existing SAC management measures. At 4 selected sea caves, detailed biological and physical surveys were conducted; the topography was mapped and the biotopes surveyed by MNCR phase 2 methodology at relocatable points along the cave system. When wave surge prevented access to the caves, 3 rocky reef sites were targeted with the aim of surveying the biota along a relocatable transect running contiguously from the supralittoral into the sublittoral. Two other sea cave surveys were conducted as part of the same research cruise at North Rona SAC and Loch Eriboll.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2025-06-10
• Access contraints: Not for navigational use; This survey recorded no species or biotope occurences that SNH consider as sensititive; all records may therefore be released in response to requests covered by Environmental Information Regulations or Freedom of Information Regulations; additionally its re-use and dissemination is permissable under Open Government Licence terms. Any re-use of this data will acknowledge the copyright owner.
• Harvest GUID: 555838c76f0f2ee00684ee7f76458657
• Extent: Latitude: 57.8630° to °
• Extent: Longitude: -8.7574° to -8.4388°
• Dataset reference date: 2018-12-31 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), Headquaters (owner, originator); NatureScot (HQ Inverness) (custodian); Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH) (distributor)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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