Survey Details - Quagga Mussel Detection Survey 2025 (LBAF-CN-25-1)
Quagga Mussel Detection Survey 2025 (LBAF-CN-25-1)
Invasive bivalves and other species noted during their sampling
2025
2025
Meath County Council, West Meath County Council & Cavan County Council LBAF funded project to assess the occurence of Quagga mussel in Lough Sheelin in 2025
Dredges, van Veen Grab
Lough Sheelin
Data was cut from digitised field sheets using Rstudio and co-ordinates checked in QGIS to ensure points are accurate.
Dataset provided by Jan-Robert Baars / AQUENS Ltd. / UCD Invasive Ecology Lab
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Local Biodiversity Action Fund (LBAF) Database, Survey: Quagga Mussel Detection Survey 2025 (LBAF-CN-25-1), National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, accessed 05 June 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/441/Survey/1818
Survey Statistics
102
0
3
Survey species distribution
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of species recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50Km
Marine Map - 50Km
Distribution of the number of species recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).Survey records distribution
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Terrestrial Map - 10km
Distribution of the number of records within each 10km grid square (ITM).Marine Map - 50Km
Marine Map - 50Km
Distribution of the number of records within each 50km grid square (WGS84).Records per year
Species per year