Collated Zostera habitat boundaries for Wales

A collation of all mapped Zostera habitats in Wales. This is a collation of Zostera habitats mapped by Intertidal Monitoring Contracts, Fisheries Sensitivity maps as well as point sources derived from casework site visits, CCW's data holdings in Marine Recorder and EAW WFD Monitoring Results. Zostera beds are an OSPAR Habitat, BAP Habitat and a sub-feature of Annex 1 habitat, mudflats and sandflats, large shallow inlets and bays, estuaries and sandbanks.

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Temporal extent1996-01-01 – 2008-12-31
Date (publication)2008-12-31
StatusonGoing
Update frequencynotPlanned
Metadata languageen
LicenseData is freely available for research or commercial use providing that the originators are acknowledged in any publications produced.
Source metadataISO 19115 XML
Last updated2026-11-04
Created2026-11-04
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