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Saltstraumen tidal current; assessing nature values in a marine national park

Report
Year of publication
2015
External websites
Cristin
Arkiv
Contributors
Camilla With Fagerli, Hege Gundersen, Janne Kim Gitmark, Andre Staalstrøm, Hartvig C Christie

Summary

The purpose of this study is to document the habitats and natural values in Saltstraumen marine conservation area and to facilitate data for further modeling in ArcGIS. Nature types (based on “Naturtyper i Norge”, NiN) and occurrence of marine organisms are analyzed from video recordings along 30 lines/transects (performed by NGU, Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse). Also available environmental data (temperature, salinity and currents) are evaluated. ...