Water Framework Directive Marine Plants Task Team Tools Paper ...

More documents

Recommendations

Info

the existing database. Such areas include the RoI; therefore it is unclear where the boundary should be drawn within RoI and NI, so this will temporarily be set at the border between the two countries (Figure 11). There was no significant difference in species composition between different eco regions or between predicted quality status although some of the good, moderate and poor sites did fall out but there is insufficient data for this to be conclusive. Figure 10: MDS plot showing the similarities in species composition and richness between just England, RoI, Scotland and Wales.
Figure 11: Map of the UK and Republic of Ireland indicating the boundaries used for the compilation of the three reduced species lists. After compilation of the database, members of the Marine Plants Task Team tentatively assigned each site a level of quality, between poor and good, based on expert knowledge of each of the sites. Only the species records from those sites deemed as ‘high quality’ were used when extracting a reduced species list. This decision was taken as the final reduced species lists should ideally be representative of high quality shores with which other shores will be compared and therefore act as a reference condition.
Page 1 and 2: Water Framework Directive Marine Pl
Page 3 and 4: dates will result in a larger speci
Page 5 and 6: Figure 2: Sites included within the
Page 7 and 8: fauna and flora and exposed shores
Page 9 and 10: Table 1: Field sampling sheet to re
Page 11 and 12: These different community factors c
Page 13 and 14: All datasets were tested for normal
Page 15 and 16: Table 3: Calculation of ‘deshor
Page 17 and 18: Development of a Reduced Species Li
Page 19: certain species are only present on
Page 23 and 24: Table 4: Species lists for each of
Page 25 and 26: Table 6: Boundaries values for RSL,
Page 27 and 28: The final metric system works on a
Page 29 and 30: Table 10: Final quality status and
Page 31 and 32: EQR Value EQR Value 1.00 0.80 0.60
Page 33 and 34: EQR Value 1.00 0.80 0.60 0.40 0.20

Water Framework Directive Marine Plants Task Team Tools Paper ...

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?