Australia's ocean territory ecosystem boundaries defined by a major scientific project. The National Marine Bioregionalisation was headed by the National Oceans Office to support an ecosystem-based approach to oceans management. It illustrates the complexity and variability of marine environments.
Use Cases
- Define marine ecosystem boundaries based on the bioregionalisation framework.
- Support oceans policy and management decisions based on the described ecosystem approach.
- Analyze the complexity and variability of marine environments as described in the project.
Strengths
- Project was a major scientific effort headed by the National Oceans Office.
- Designed to support Australia's Oceans Policy commitment to ecosystem-based management.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Major scientific project bringing together data to define ecosystem boundaries.
- Time Range
- 2005
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-27 21:20:38.322390; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Australia's ocean territory