IMAS Metadata Catalogue
NSW Ocean Ecosystems 2002
An environmental classification developed in conjunction with the NSW Marine Parks Authority Research Committee. For more information see: Breen D.A. and R.P. Avery. (2002). Broad-scale biodiversity assessment of the Manning Shelf marine bioregion. Draft final report for the NSW Marine Parks Authority. Copies of the report may be borrowed from the library: Environment Australia, GPO Box 787, Canberra ACT 2601 Australia.
This coverage is intended for used in regional level marine conservation assessment. It was prepared using very low cost techniques (ie. unrectified API) and should not be relied upon for navigation purposes.
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This record describes the environmental classification of the four ocean ocean ecosystems classified by depth. The full study also describes classes for each of the five major estuary ecosystems, and nine habitat surrogates.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2002-05-30T00:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-01-06
Custodian
- Purpose
- The purpose of the mapping was for use in assessments to identify potential locations for marine protected areas in NSW.
- Credit
- State of New South Wales and Office of Environment and Heritage 2012.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 25000
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
))
Temporal extent
- Time position
- 2002-05-30
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
Resource format
- Title
- ESRI Shapefile
- Date
- Edition
- -
- Keywords (Theme)
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- environment
- oceans
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Benthic habitat
Resource specific usage
- Specific usage
- Data supplied for use by the Seamap Australia Project.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png
License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- Cite data as: Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales Government (2002. NSW Ocean Ecosystems 2002. Data accessed at http://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?uuid=07fa52d2-0288-459c-a665-e87d2163591a on (access date).
- Other constraints
- This dataset is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, on behalf of the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), New South Wales Government for the purposes of Seamap Australia (testing a national marine benthic habitat classification scheme).
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- THIS DATA IS NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION PURPOSES.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
Identifier
- Name
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ECOSYSTEM
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/ULAA
- Name
- Metres
- Description
- Appended to original data for styling purposes for the Seamap Australia Project.
- Name
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Benthic habitat
- Name
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SM_HAB_CLS
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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ESRI Shapefile
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ESRI Shapefile
- OnLine resource
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SHAPE-ZIP
DATA ACCESS - This OGC WFS service returns the data (NSW ocean ecosystems) in Shapefile format.
- OnLine resource
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seamap:SeamapAus_NSW_ocean_ecosystems_2002
MAP - NSW ocean ecosystems
- OnLine resource
-
REPORT - Broadscale biodiversity assessment of the Manning Shelf region [direct download]
- OnLine resource
-
Original metadata record [NSW OEH Catalogue]
Resource lineage
- Statement
- The continental shelf was partitioned into four depth zones 0-20 m, 20-60 m and 60-200 m with a fourth zone (>200 m) extending beyond the outer edge of the continental shelf (Table 7a and 9). Zones were mapped directly from the Waterway Authority's GIS layer of depth contours (derived from Australian Hydrographic Office data). The number and location of zones is not based on any defined ecological boundary, but rather reflects general patterns in the cross shelf variation in oceanography, sediments and biological diversity. Limitations: Using depth alone to predict ocean biodiversity is an oversimplification of a complex environment.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
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EPSG/GDA94 / Geoscience Australia Lambert (EPSG:3112)
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- research vessel
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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07fa52d2-0288-459c-a665-e87d2163591a
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/07fa52d2-0288-459c-a665-e87d2163591a
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-09-23T12:34:54
- Date info (Revision)
- 2020-09-23T12:34:54
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Spatial extent
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