Site Condition Assessments of Welsh Standing Water Features (2003-2008)
The UK Conservation Agencies have devised a Common Standards Monitoring (CSM) protocol (JNCC, 2005) for the routine monitoring and assessment of protected site condition. The CSM lake monitoring method is based on previous survey protocols used by the conservation agencies. It aims to gather the maximum amount of information relating to the ecology of each water body in the most efficient way possible. The purpose of this data capture was to provide an assessment of the current conservation status of water features in Wales.
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- NRW_DS110029
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Both reports utilise Common Standards Monitoring (CSM) methods (JNCC, 2005)) for SSSIs and SAC designated water features. Data collected includes aquatic macrophyte surveys (carried out following the CSM protocol); physico-chemical data; sedimentary diatoms; lake bathymetries; catchment and habitat maps, which was then used to prepare site condition assessments for each of the lakes. The CSM lake monitoring method is based on previous survey protocols used by the conservation agencies. It aims to gather the maximum amount of information relating to the ecology of each water body in the most efficient way possible. The protocol makes use of a combination of shoreline walks to identify marginals, waded transects to describe the shallow water vegetation and boat-based surveys to identify plants in deeper water. In addition, physicochemical data are collected for each lake. The protocol is described in full in JNCC (2005).
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- 2008-12-31
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- 2003-01-01
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- 2008-12-31
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- Biota
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- Wales (WLS)
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Reports in PDF and Word. Seasonal water chemistry data, palaeo diatom data for core top, middle and bottom samples, aquatic and macrophyte depth distribution graphs as excel files. Macrophyte maps and bathymetric maps, provided as .eps files. Habitat maps, provided as Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) files. CSM field survey data, provided within a Microsoft Access database. Photos of all CSM survey sections, provided as JPEG images.
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- Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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This dataset has not been assessed for conformance to the referenced INSPIRE regulation.
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Both reports utilise Common Standards Monitoring (CSM) methods (JNCC, 2005)) for SSSIs and SAC designated water features. Data collected includes aquatic macrophyte surveys (carried out following the CSM protocol); physico-chemical data; sedimentary diatoms; lake bathymetries; catchment and habitat maps, which was then used to prepare site condition assessments for each of the lakes. The CSM lake monitoring method is based on previous survey protocols used by the conservation agencies. It aims to gather the maximum amount of information relating to the ecology of each water body in the most efficient way possible. The protocol makes use of a combination of shoreline walks to identify marginals, waded transects to describe the shallow water vegetation and boat-based surveys to identify plants in deeper water. In addition, physicochemical data are collected for each lake. The protocol is described in full in JNCC (2005).
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- 2008-06-01
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- marine and freshwater inventory
- SSSI (Sites of Special Scientific Interest)
- Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) (see also Candidate Special Areas of Conservation cSAC)
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- 2026-08-27
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Site condition assessments of Welsh SAC and SSSI standing water features
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CCW standing waters SSSI monitoring 2007-08
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There are no access restrictions on this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.
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© CNC/NRW Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and NRW's copyright. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose.
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- English
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Site Condition Assessment of Welsh Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) Standing Water features (2007 - 2012)
NRW_DS115180
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- 2026-09-28T11:49:15.964Z
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