Benthic foraminiferal assemblages from three areas forming a transect across the Torres Strait-Gulf of Papua shelf. The data was collected by the Australian Ocean Data Network and last updated on 2026-06-23. It includes relative abundances at the order level and distribution patterns of individual species, correlated with environmental variables like water depth, sediment composition, and organic carbon flux.
Use Cases
- Assessing habitat types based on correlations between benthic foraminifera and environmental variables mentioned in the description
- Studying sediment reworking and preservation using the developed foraminiferal preservation scale
- Analyzing the relationship between microbiotic communities and factors like percent carbonate mud and gravel
- Modeling short transportation pathways for benthic organisms based on strong correlation to water depth
Strengths
- Data covers a transect across the shelf from the Fly River Delta to the shelf edge near the Great Barrier Reef
- Analysis includes multivariate statistics relating foraminiferal distributions to multiple environmental attributes
- A specific foraminiferal preservation scale was developed to assess sediment reworking
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
- Detailed study of sediments and benthic fossil biota from three selected areas.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-23 04:10:28.708231; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Torres Strait-Gulf of Papua region, specifically a shelf transect from the Fly River Delta to the shelf edge.