Biodiversity assessments of invertebrates within seagrass transplant plots for Amphibolis antarctica and Posidonia australis, compared to adjacent bare sand and healthy meadows. The data was aggregated by the Australian Ocean Data Network and last updated on 2026-07-22. It covers three sites at Middle Bluff, Dubaut Point and Useless Loop in Shark Bay.
Use Cases
- Assess the effectiveness of seagrass transplant restoration based on invertebrate biodiversity comparisons.
- Model invertebrate community recovery in restored seagrass meadows based on plot-level assessments.
- Compare invertebrate assemblages between transplanted seagrass, bare sand, and healthy reference meadows.
Strengths
- Includes comparisons across three distinct habitat types: transplant plots, bare sand, and healthy meadows.
- Covers three specific geographic sites within Shark Bay: Middle Bluff, Dubaut Point, and Useless Loop.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Biodiversity assessments within experimental transplant plots.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-22 01:49:30.356268; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Middle Bluff, Dubaut Point and Useless Loop, Shark Bay, Australia.