Citation: Cross, T.F. & Southgate, T. 1983 An approach to ecological monitoring in the rocky intertidal: a survey of Bantry Bay and Dunmanus Bay, Ireland. Marine Environmental Research 8: 149-163
Number of Pages: 15
Keywords: Community, Cork, Ecology, Fauna, Flora, Habitat, Littoral, Marine, Methods, Mollusca, Monitoring, Rock, Survey
Abstract: Paper describes the methodology of a monitoring study of the fauna and flora of the rocky intertidal zone in Bantry Bay and Dunmanus Bay in southwest Ireland, and some representative results are presented. Five shores, four in Bantry and one in Dunmanus Bay, were visited monthly from May 1978 to June 1980. The sites covered a range of exposure to wave action. On each visit to each shore four research programmes were undertaken - transect studies, recolonization of cleared areas, barnacle studies and limpet studies. The transect methods are discussed in relation to other methods in use.