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Temperate Australian quantitative spatial and temporal abundance data for rocky reef biota (biodiversity): Tasmanian MPA planning surveys and opportunistic surveys

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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The data is quantitative abundance of fish and megafaunal invertebrates and algal % cover derived from transect based counts at a wide range of locations across Temperate Australia. The methods are described in detail in Edgar and Barrett (1997). Primarily the data are derived from transects at 5 m depth and/or 10 m depth at each site surveyed. Methods were initially developed for research on temporal changes following protection in Tasmanian MPAs (Maria Is, Tinderbox, Ninepin Point, Governor Island). Further research has collected data in Tasmania, in MPA planning surveys (e.g. St Helens, Waterhouse Region, Low Head, Lillico Beach, Rocky Cape), an oil spill assessment (Low Head), and in studies and surveys in new Tasmania MPAs (Port Davey and the Kent Group). The data represented by this record was collected in MPA planning surveys and for opportunistic surveys such as the Low Head oil spill assessment. In many cases the dataset involved temporal replication (year scale).

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Title Temperate Australian quantitative spatial and temporal abundance data for rocky reef biota (biodiversity): Tasmanian MPA planning surveys and opportunistic surveys
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e46c876e-63ca-4d1e-af2b-439679faf78e
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
Neville.Barrett@utas.edu.au
Reference Period 04/09/2015
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Temperate Australian quantitative spatial and temporal abundance data for rocky reef biota (biodiversity): Tasmanian MPA planning surveys and opportunistic surveys". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/temperate-australian-quantitative-spatial-and-temporal-abundance-data-for-rocky-reef-biota-biod13