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Marine Futures Project - Southwest Capes - reef habitat

The Marine Futures Project was designed to benchmark the current status of key Western Australian marine ecosystems, based on an improved understanding of the relationship between marine habitats, biodiversity and our use of these values. Approximately 1,500 km2 of seafloor were mapped using hydroacoustics (Reson 8101 Multibeam), and expected benthic habitats "ground-truthed" using towed video transects and baited remote underwater video systems. Both sources of information were then combined in a spatial predictive modelling framework to produce fine-scale habitat maps showing the extent of substrate types, biotic formations, etc.


Surveys took place across 9 study areas, including the Capes region of southwest Western Australia. The area is one of the most diverse temperate marine environments in Australia. Warm, tropical waters of the Leeuwin Current mingle with the cool waters of the Capes Current, resulting in high finfish diversity, including tropical and temperate species, as well as internationally significant seagrass diversity with meadows occurring at depths greater than 40 metres. The region's geomorphology is complex with an array of intertidal and subtidal reef environments. Many marine plants and animals are endemic to the southern coast of Australia due to its long geographical isolation, with seagrass, algae and estuarine habitats functioning as spawning, nursery and feeding grounds for a wide range of invertebrates and fish. Significant numbers of marine mammals also frequent the area, including the blue whale, the largest of all marine creatures.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2016-02-24

Principal investigator

UWA Oceans Institute (OI), The University of Western Australia (UWA) - Meeuwig, Jessica
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Perth
Western Australia
6009
Australia
(+61) (0) 400 024 999
ORCID ID >

Principal investigator

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) - Radford, Ben
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
PO Box 41775
Casuarina MC
Northern Territory
0811
Australia
Credit
Natural Heritage Trust
Status
Completed

Principal investigator

UWA Oceans Institute (OI), The University of Western Australia (UWA) - Meeuwig, Jessica
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Perth
Western Australia
6009
Australia
(+61) (0) 400 024 999
ORCID ID >

Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Temporal extent

Time period
2006-01-01 2008-12-31
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
  • EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | BENTHIC HABITAT
  • EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | REEF HABITAT
  • EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY | CONTINENTAL MARGINS
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
  • Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
  • Environmental Management
  • Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
AODN Platform Vocabulary
  • research vessel
Keywords (Theme)
  • Reef habitat

Resource specific usage

Specific usage
Data supplied for use by National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub Project D3, and for Seamap Australia.

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Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

Use limitation
The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the University of Western Australia through the Centre for Marine Futures.

Resource constraints

Linkage
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License Graphic

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License


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

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Other constraints
The citation in a list of references is: citation author name/s (year metadata published), metadata title. Citation author organisation/s. File identifier and Data accessed at (add http link).
Other constraints
This dataset is hosted by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, on behalf of the Centre for Marine Futures, University of Western Australia for the purposes of Seamap Australia (testing a national habitat classification scheme).

Associated resource

Title
Seamap Australia
Date (Revision)
2016-12-20
Association Type
Larger work citation
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Content Information

Content type
Physical measurement
Description
Predicted based on spatial modelling of multibeam hydroacoustics surveys and in situ video surveys
Name
Reef habitat

Name
substrate

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • ESRI shapefile (zipped)

OnLine resource
DATA ACCESS - Southwest Capes reef habitat (wc_gensub.shp) [direct download]

Resource lineage

Statement
Areas of seafloor in water deeper than 10 metres were surveyed with hydroacoustics using a Reson 8101 Multibeam or interferometric swath echosounder system, mounted on the hull of the sampling vessel. These data were processed to construct full coverage maps of seafloor bathymetry and textural information. These maps, combined with observations recorded from in situ video footage, unerpinned the development of statistical models that produced the most efficient, objective, and ecologically meaningful classifications of sea floor features and inhabitants as possible for natural resource management and planning.
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Dataset
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Platform

Identifier

Code
research vessel

Metadata

Metadata identifier
7c1fe290-727d-441a-b2a9-8bf4d52782d8

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - IMAS Data Manager ()
Parent metadata
  • WA Marine Futures Project - reef habitat

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/7c1fe290-727d-441a-b2a9-8bf4d52782d8

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2018-12-15T18:07:57
Date info (Revision)
2018-12-15T18:07:57

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

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Keywords

Reef habitat
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | BENTHIC HABITAT EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | REEF HABITAT EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY | CONTINENTAL MARGINS

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