Project Seagrass have an ongoing voluntary seagrass survey in the Isles of Scilly which Natural England part fund. The purpose of this project is to continue to collect data to contribute to the ongoing condition assessment of the seagrass beds which are a feature of the Isles of Scilly Complex Special Area of Conservation (SAC).
Project details
In this report, we present novel data from an ongoing, spatially replicated, annual study of a comparatively un-impacted temperate eelgrass habitat, based around the Isles of Scilly, UK. Five sites were assessed: Broad Ledges Tresco, Higher Town Bay, Little Arthur, Old Grimsby Harbour, and West Broad Ledges. Metrics include eelgrass (Zostera marina) shoot density, number of leaves per shoot, maximum shoot length, as well as semi-quantitative recording of signs of wasting disease and epiphyte cover on a leaf-by-leaf basis. Findings from the 2016 survey, as well as their place in continuous time series from 1996, are presented primarily in graphical form. This represents twenty-one years of continuous annual monitoring around the Isles of Scilly.
| Start date | 2016-01-01 |
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| End date | 2017-02-02 |
Project outputs
This project produced the following outputs:
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Closing statement
This project has successfully provided a full report to add to the annual monitoring programme for the Isles of Scilly eelgrass beds. Findings from the 2016 survey, as well as their place in continuous time series from 1996, are presented primarily in graphical form. This represents twenty-one years of continuous annual monitoring around the Isles of Scilly.