Broadscale habitat (EUNIS level 3) for Whitsand and Looe Bay Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ)

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This it the updated broadscale habitat (BSH) map for the Whitsand and Looe Bay MCZ. Several BSH were identified as part of this map creation including: Infralittoral rock, moderate energy circalittoral rock, subtidal sand, subtidal mixed sediments, subtidal coarse sediment

Data and resources

Whitsand and Looe Bay rMCZ site report

Site report on Defra Rand, describing survey and habitat map methods.

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Additional information

Temporal extent	2013-01-01 – 2013-12-31
Date (creation)	2014-07-23
Date (publication)	2018-04-26
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	┬® Defra. Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence.
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show