Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Riding Stone, NE Coast.

[Site list for year 1986]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860905/21 Date: 1986-09-05 GPS: 54.84783,-5.72400. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The intertidal is composed of exposed, patellobarnacle dominated fissured limestone rock, with a steeply shelving seaward face. At the transect site, the upper shore is relatively flat and sheltered, allowing the growth of a belt of Fucus spiralis, although this is not characteristic of the shore as a whole. The site has a high algal diversity and a low animal diversity.