Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Marlfield Rocks, Strangford Lough.

[Site list for year 1985]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19850630/21 Date: 1985-06-30 GPS: 54.40683,-5.57800. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: This is one of the few sites in Strangford Lough composed mainly of rock ridges from high to low water. The ridges are Ascophyllum dominated, with an understorey of turf forming red algae in the Ascophyllum zone, changing to encrusting corallines in the lower two zones. At the sampling site there is a relatively wide, flat upper shore (supporting the Pelvetia and Fucus spiralis zones), with stones, muddy gravel and cobbles overlying the ridges. Above this is a narrow fringing saltmarsh (also sampled). Animal diversity at this site is not high for Strangford Lough, perhaps because there are few boulders for animals to live under.

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