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Darwin & Bynoe Harbours Predictive Benthic Habitat Mapping

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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The goal of the program was developing comprehensive inventories and maps of the distribution and abundance of physical and biological seabed habitats, seagrasses and benthic assemblages to provide baseline environmental mapping and a description of ecological patterns. The benthic habitat mapping was performed by utilising R/Python and Maxent software within the species distribution modelling domain. We correlated the probability of occurrence of individual benthic habitat classes with the environmental predictors developed form the multibeam hydroacoustic dataset. There are five maps for the probability of occurrence of individual benthic habitat classes: Macroalgae, Seagrass, Hard Corals, Filter feeders and Bare seafloor; and a maximum likelihood map incorporating all the individual layers (1- Macroalgae; 2- Filter Feeders; 3- Seagrass; 4- Hard Corals; 5- Bare seafloor). An updated version of this data are available (2022) Revised predictive benthic habitat map for Darwin Harbour. Report prepared for Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Darwin, 127 pp. See related data link below.

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Field Value
Title Darwin & Bynoe Harbours Predictive Benthic Habitat Mapping
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/0a1e5374-aaa0-465b-a5eb-28a139827f12
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
reception@aims.gov.au
Reference Period 10/05/2022
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Darwin & Bynoe Harbours Predictive Benthic Habitat Mapping". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/darwin-bynoe-harbours-predictive-benthic-habitat-mapping