Benthic survey of Dugong and Turtle seagrass habitats in the North-West Torres Strait for November 2015 and January 2016 (NESP TWQ 3.5, TropWATER, JCU)

Alex Carter; Michael Rasheed

doi:10.15468/b66xcx

Benthic survey of Dugong and Turtle seagrass habitats in the North-West Torres Strait for November 2015 and January 2016 (NESP TWQ 3.5, TropWATER, JCU)

Citation

Carter, A. B. and Rasheed, M. A. (2016) Assessment of Key Dugong and Turtle Seagrass Resources in Northwest Torres Strait. Report to the National Environmental Science Programme and Torres Strait Regional Authority. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns (41pp.). https://doi.org/10.15468/b66xcx accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.

Description

This dataset summarises benthic surveys of seagrass for Dugong and Turtle habitats in the North-West Torres Strait for November 2015 and January 2016. The Site data describes seagrass at 853 sites; while the Meadow data describes seagrass at 34 individual meadows. The data includes information on seagrass species, biomass, diversity, and BMI and algae percent cover. The dataset is available as shapefiles, GIS layer packages, and/or a CSV file.

The sampling methods used to study, describe and monitor seagrass meadows were developed by the TropWATER Seagrass Group and tailored to the location and habitat surveyed; these are described in detail in the relevant publications (https://research.jcu.edu.au/tropwater).

Data downloaded on 2020-07-23 from https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/034ce816-0777-4bbd-aefc-8b73bd540245

Additional info

marine, harvested by OBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Torres Strait

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Alex Carter
originator
position: Pricincipal Investigator
Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University
Townsville
Queensland
AU

Michael Rasheed
originator
position: Pricincipal Investigator
Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University

Alex Carter
metadata author
position: Pricincipal Investigator
Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University
Townsville
Queensland
AU

OBIS Australia Node manager
publisher
position: OBIS Australia Data Manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
Castray Esplanade
Hobart
7000
Tasmania
AU
Telephone: +61 3 6232 5062
email: obisau@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.obis.org.au

Alex Carter
administrative point of contact
position: Pricincipal Investigator
Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University
Townsville
Queensland
AU