Seagrass classified as Collapsed Biotic Condition

Created 26/06/2025

Updated 26/06/2025

Seagrass areas in Port Phillip Bay and Western Port Bay that were previous reported which have collapsed within the past (maps from Ball & Blake 2001). The data was classified by Deakin University's Blue Carbon Lab (Costa et al. 2022) and aligned with DEECA blue carbon habitat mapping (Mazor et al. 2023) References: Costa, M.D.P, Wartman, M., Macreadie, P.I., Ierodiaconou, D., Morris, R., Nicholson, E., Pomeroy, A., Young, M., Carnell, P. (2022). Mapping the benefits and costs of management actions for coastal wetlands in Victoria. Report submitted to the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning. Deakin University, Australia. 55pp. Mazor, T., Watermeyer, K., MacDonald, K., Holden, R., Grinter, V., Hobley, T., Ferns, L. (2023) Mapping Victoria’s Blue Carbon, The State of Victoria, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA).

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Field Value
Title Seagrass classified as Collapsed Biotic Condition
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/3f0aa795-1036-4b7a-8bc3-5c3d955b454d
Remote Last Updated 26/05/2025
Contact Point
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
contact@dpc.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 04/07/2023
Geospatial Coverage Victoria
Data Portal Victoria Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Victoria Government "Seagrass classified as Collapsed Biotic Condition". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/seagrass-classified-as-collapsed-biotic-condition