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WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 2.2.5 - Benthic Primary Productivity in the Kimberley region, Western Australia

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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The goal of this project is to integrate the research developed on benthic primary producers (BPPs) in shallow coastal waters of the Kimberley. This includes understanding variations in the physical environment and biogeochemical conditions, as well as the spatial distribution of BPPs and their contribution to productivity in the region. Research objectives were: - Develop a geographic information system (GIS) for spatially and temporally explicit baseline information on habitats and processes. - Characterise reef platform and adjacent habitats based on environmental gradients. - Identify key physical and biological drivers that influence distribution of benthic primary producers. - Identify methods for integration of available data and upscaling to visited and unvisited sites. - Contribute to improving the regional understanding of marine biodiversity, distribution and resilience. - Develop baseline maps to go toward cost-effective methods for long-term monitoring of benthic primary-producer habitats and associated environmental processes. Data from KMRP projects 1.3.1, 1.4, 1.2.5, 2.2.3 and 2.2.4 were used in this project. ESRI Geodatabase and shapefiles are the output data for this project. 3 shapefile names - Thalassia_hemprichii_final.shp, tallonhabmapf.shp and Enhalus_acoroides_final.shp

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Field Value
Title WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 2.2.5 - Benthic Primary Productivity in the Kimberley region, Western Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/030232e0-5e1f-4a4f-bc80-b6fc6e21716c
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
renae.hovey@uwa.edu.au
Reference Period 05/12/2019
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 "WAMSI 2 - Kimberley Node - 2.2.5 - Benthic Primary Productivity in the Kimberley region, Western Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/wamsi-2-kimberley-node-2-2-5-benthic-primary-productivity-in-the-kimberley-region-western-austr