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WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 1.1.2 - Key ecological processes in Kimberley benthic communities: recruitment and herbivory, Western Australia

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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Identify the timing of coral and fish replenishment (recruitment of young) in the Kimberley. Determine the significance and impact of algal and seagrass eating species (herbivores) on the Kimberley marine ecosystem. Understand how these ecological processes work in different Kimberley habitats such as coral reefs, mangrove and inter-tidal areas. Key overall objectives of the project include identifying the nature of these processes from a representative habitat perspective, identifying the important taxa involved in these processes, providing baseline quantitative information, establishing safe monitoring sites and the development of cost-effective techniques suitable to the challenging Kimberley environment. Field data has been collated and combined into excel spread sheets and locational ESRI GIS shapefiles.

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Field Value
Title WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 1.1.2 - Key ecological processes in Kimberley benthic communities: recruitment and herbivory, Western Australia
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/313f6498-7f35-46f3-a818-2447efc69eaa
Remote Last Updated 26/05/2022
Contact Point
Western Australian Marine Science Institution
adc@aims.gov.au
Reference Period 03/05/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        [
          123,
          -16.5
        ],
        [
          123,
          -16.33333
        ],
        [
          123.25,
          -16.33333
        ],
        [
          123.25,
          -16.5
        ],
        [
          123,
          -16.5
        ]
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "MultiPolygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - Project 1.1.2 - Key ecological processes in Kimberley benthic communities: recruitment and herbivory, Western Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/wamsi-2-kimberley-node-project-1-1-2-key-ecological-processes-in-kimberley-benthic-communit_b7d