Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Green Island, Strangford Lough.

[Site list for year 1986]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860625/21 Date: 1986-06-25 GPS: 54.38600,-5.63700. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The transect site is on the north-western side of Green Island. The transect runs across an Ascophyllum dominated boulder shore, with the scattered boulders resting on a bed of muddy gravel and pebbles covered in a filiform and filamentous brown algal mat. The upper shore slopes steeply while the lower shore is flat. There was an extensive exposure of laminarians on the sampling date. The supralittoral is composed of large boulders resting on medium and small boulders, clay and stones, all at the foot of a steep grassy slope. The supralittoral has good lichen diversity within a small area.

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