IMAS Metadata Catalogue
Marine Futures Project - Rottnest Island - 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 Rottnest Island, a popular family holiday destination just 20 km off the Perth coast. One of the main drawcards of the island is the diverse marine life inhabiting the surounding waters, which Western Australian locals and tourists can experience by snorkelling, diving, boating and fishing.
The marine environment around Rottnest includes seagrass meadows, kelp-covered reef tops, coral patches, and sponge gardens in deeper water. As a result of the warm, southward flowing Leeuwin Current, the island represents the southern limit of the distributions of many tropical corals and fish. The marine life around Rottnest therefore represents a unique mix of tropical and temperate species and habitats.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-02-24
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
- Credit
- Natural Heritage Trust
- Status
- Completed
Principal investigator
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
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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
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
- Keywords (Platform)
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- research vessel
- Keywords (Theme)
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- 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.
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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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
- 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
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Reef habitat
- Name
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substrate
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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ESRI shapefile (zipped)
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ESRI shapefile (zipped)
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.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- research vessel
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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b718e793-3773-47da-97e6-f176a1f7d9af
- 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/b718e793-3773-47da-97e6-f176a1f7d9af
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-12-15T18:07:56
- Date info (Revision)
- 2018-12-15T18:07:56
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Spatial extent
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