Marine pressures operating within Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (NESP MaC 1.3)

The National Environmental Science Program projects SS2 and D7 (under the Marine Biodiversity Hub) and 1.3 (under the Marine and Coastal Hub) were instigated to support the design of Monitoring Effectiveness (ME) framework for Australian Marine Park (AMP) estate, and contribute to the AMP Science Plan.


The overall objective of these projects was to provide a nationally accepted common language to describe natural values and pressures, and a robust approach to combining this information to inform national priorities for monitoring inside AMPs. Broadly, the following approach was taken:

1. Identify Key Natural Values (KNVs) in AMP networks through an expert elicitation process,

2. Develop a national-scale ecosystem map via a combination of depth and characteristic habitat using the ME framework

3. Collate and synthesise pressures operating within Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone and state/territory waters, as defined by the ME framework's pressures common language

4. Provide a spatially explicit analysis of the relative risks posed to marine conservation values, as defined by the ME framework’s natural values hierarchy.


This record describes component 3: collating the pressures by ME common language for all of Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone and state/territory waters; and determining the cumulative pressure exerted by each activity/sub-activity combination.


Components 1, 2 & 4 are described elsewhere.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2023-08-24
Edition
Version 1

Identifier

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Code
10.25959/NMVE-SF04
Codespace
doi.org
Description
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Principal investigator

CSIRO Environment - Dunstan, Piers
Tasmania
Australia
ROR ID >

ORCID >

Collaborator

Data61 - Hayes, Keith
CSIRO
ROR ID >

ORCID >

Status
Completed

Point of contact

CSIRO Environment - Dunstan, Piers
Tasmania
Australia
ROR ID >

ORCID >

Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
  • Oceans
  • Society

Extent



Temporal extent

Time period
2016-01-01

Vertical element

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
7000
Identifier
EPSG::5715
Name
MSL depth
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords (Theme)
  • National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
  • research
  • monitoring
  • cumulative pressures
  • Management Effectiveness (ME)
  • MERI
  • priorities
GCMD Earth Science Keywords

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

Linkage
http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png

License Graphic

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License


>

Website
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

License Text

Other constraints
Dunstan, P., & Hayes, K. (2023). Marine pressures operating within Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NESP Marine and Coastal Hub. https://doi.org/10.25959/NMVE-SF04
Other constraints
This dataset is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, on behalf of CSIRO and NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Project 1.3.

Resource constraints

Use limitation
Data was sourced from the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub – the Marine and Coastal Hub is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program (NESP), administered by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW).

Associated resource

Title
Project RAiD

Identifier

Code
10.71676/f0bab83a
Codespace
raid.org
Association Type
Dependency
Initiative Type
Project
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Supplemental Information
Dunstan PK, Woolley SNC, Monk J, Barrett N, Hayes KR, Foster S, Howe SA, Logan D, Samson CR, Francis SO (2023) Designing a targeted monitoring program to support evidence-based management of Australian Marine Parks: National Implementation. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. CSIRO. Hayes, K. R., Dunstan, P., Woolley, S., Barrett, N., Howe, S. A., Samson, C. R., Bowling, R., Ryan, M. P., Foster, S., Monk, J., Peel, D., Hosack, G. R., Francis, S. O. (2021). Designing a Targeted Monitoring Program to Support Evidence Based Management of Australian Marine Parks: A Pilot on the South-East Marine Parks Network. Report to Parks Australia and the National Environmental Science Program, Marine Biodiversity Hub. Parks Australia, University of Tasmanian and CSIRO, Hobart, Australia.

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • Web Map Service, ESRI Shapefile

OnLine resource
REPORT - Dunstan et al 2023: Designing a targeted monitoring program to support evidence-based management of Australian Marine Parks: National Implementation

OnLine resource
REPORT - Hayes et al 2021: Designing a Targeted Monitoring Program to Support Evidence Based Management of Australian Marine Parks: A Pilot on the South-East Marine Parks Network

OnLine resource
DATA ACCESS - browse and selectively download available data

OnLine resource
DATA ACCESS - directly download full data package

OnLine resource
View mapping layers in the Seamap Australia portal

NOTE: there are 30+ pressures outputs from this project, choose your layers of interest in Seamap Australia by selecting 'Pressures & Activities' > and all sub-categories suffixed with '[summed]' for summed pressures.

Resource lineage

Statement
Pressures were collated from a wide range of sources and allocated to the corresponding Activity and Sub-activity according to the ME framework common language (see reports linked to this record). Wherever possible (and permissible) each pressure data product was mapped to a 0.1 degree (approximately 10 km²) grid resolution raster, resulting in 309,870 cells across the commonwealth marine area. Each data product was then standardised to a maximum value of 1, and averaged over the period of time that the data was available. If more than one component pressure was present for a single sub-activity, these were summed, before re-standardising into a dimensionless 0-1 Standardised Pressure Sum (SPS). Data is available in raster format in the following folder structure -Activity --Sub-activity ----raw [original component pressure rasters] ----standardised [component pressure rasters scaled 0-1 and expanded + masked to Aus EEZ] ----SPS [sum of all component pressure rasters, rescaled 0-1] See Dunstan et al 2023 & Hayes et al 2021 for a description of individual sub-activities and full methodology.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/054d861c-72d0-4923-9375-d81bc1ae7f85

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - Emma Flukes (NESP Marine and Coastal Hub Data Manager (Southern node))
Parent metadata

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/054d861c-72d0-4923-9375-d81bc1ae7f85

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2023-08-24T11:44:25
Date info (Revision)
2025-05-28T08:07:48

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

MERI Management Effectiveness (ME) National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub cumulative pressures monitoring priorities research
GCMD Earth Science Keywords
ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT

Provided by

Share on social sites

Access to the record in catalogue

Associated resources

Not available