Bioregionalisation in the Australian South-East Marine Region

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

The National Oceans Office undertook in September 2001 an analysis of Bioregionalisation for the Australian South-east Marine Region, an integration of geological, oceanographic and biological data as the basis for bioregionalisation. The biological and physical assessment was intended to contribute to the implementation of ecosystem-based management in the South-east Marine Region by developing a shared understanding of the ecosystem. The assessment had two streams, ecosystem structure and ecosystem function and incorporated the input from these projects among others: - Production of a consistent, high quality bathymetric data grid for the south-east marine region. - Seabed characterisation including geomorphology, acoustic facies and seabed sampling (GA) - Computer sediment modelling (GEOMAT) - Refine Broad Scale Bioregionalisation (Provinces and Biomes) (CSIRO) - Upgrade deepwater nutrient, water properties and ocean current models (CSIRO) - Rapid assembly of ecological fish data (CSIRO Marine Research in collaboration with Australian Museum, Victoria Museum and NSW Fisheries) - Rapid assembly of ecological invertebrate data (Museum Victoria in partnership with Australia Museum and CSIRO Marine Research) - Bioregionalisation analysis for the South-east Marine Region (CSIRO Marine Research and Australian Geological Survey Organisation [GA]) This dataset contains the spatial distribution of the physical and biological components of the Region resulting from bioregionalisation analysis for the South-east Marine Region. Further detail will be available in the report entitled "An Interim, Draft bioregionalisation for the continental slope and deeper waters of the South-East Marine Region of Australia" by A. Butler, P. Harris et al. (draft only available at time of this metadata compilation).

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Field Value
Title Bioregionalisation in the Australian South-East Marine Region
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/1b6c5bb8-5974-4da4-8026-f44c5124c579
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 18/07/2008 - 01/01/2001
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        130.0,
        -50.0
      ],
      [
        155.0,
        -50.0
      ],
      [
        155.0,
        -30.0
      ],
      [
        130.0,
        -30.0
      ],
      [
        130.0,
        -50.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Bioregionalisation in the Australian South-East Marine Region". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/bioregionalisation-in-the-australian-south-east-marine-region