NESP MaC Project 2.6 - Mapping critical Australian sea lion habitat to assess ecological value and risks to population recovery
This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub project "Mapping critical Australian sea lion habitat to assess ecological value and risks to population recovery". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.
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Populations of the endangered Australian sea lion have declined by >60% over the last 40 years. There is a marked uneven distribution in abundance and trends across the species range, suggesting that localised risk profiles from threats vary at small spatial scales. Fine scale differences in habitat use are thought to underpin these differences, yet knowledge about the species dependency on key habitats and their vulnerability to human impacts is limited. This project will deploy underwater cameras onto sea lions to identify and map their critical habitats, assess their ecological value and identify risks to populations. Results will improve our understanding of threats to sea lion populations and support future conservation actions to recover the species.
Outputs
• Tracking data from sea lion-deployed tags: location, depth, time, temperature, light, acceleration [dataset]
• Timestamped video footage from sea lion-deployed cameras [dataset]
• Final project report [written]
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-02-01
Resource provider
- Purpose
- To identify and map critical habitats of sea lions, and asses their ecological value and risks to their population.
- Credit
- Simon Goldsworthy (Uni of Adelaide / SARDI), Roger Kirkwood (Uni of Adelaide / SARDI), Sean Connell (Uni of Adelaide), Gretchen Grammer (Uni of Adelaide / SARDI), Nathan Angelakis (Uni of Adelaide)
- Credit
- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Credit
- Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), Australian Government
- Credit
- In addition to NESP (DCCEEW) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
- Status
- On going
Principal investigator
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2022-06-01 2024-03-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords (dataSource)
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- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Keywords (Theme)
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- threatened species
- Australian sea lion
- habitat mapping
- risk assessment
- ecological value
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The data collections described in this record are funded by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) through the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub.
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
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- OnLine resource
- Project page on NESP Marine and Coastal Hub website
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/0bbc661d-d18b-441f-9b81-58810d1cf767
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Field session
- Name
- MaC Hub Project 2.5
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0bbc661d-d18b-441f-9b81-58810d1cf767
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-03-01T12:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-06-15T10:17:22
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018