NERP TE Project 5.1: Great Barrier Reef Biodiversity Dynamics, 2011-2014

A project mapping the diversity of organisms and environments on Australia's Great Barrier Reef from 2011 to 2014. The Australian Ocean Data Network aggregated existing long-term and large-scale data to relate biotic diversity to spatial, environmental, and temporal drivers. Outcomes include interactive maps, quantified changes in diversity, and assessments of management effects.

Use Cases

• Mapping spatial patterns of fish and coral diversity based on the project's interactive map outputs.
• Quantifying temporal changes in reef biodiversity based on the described long-term data analysis.
• Identifying environmental drivers of marine diversity based on the project's stated analysis of biotic relationships.
• Developing condition indicators for reefs based on the described diversity-based metrics.
• Assessing the impact of marine zoning on biodiversity based on the project's stated assessment of rezoning effects.

Strengths

• Analysis is based on existing long-term and large-scale data, suggesting a foundation of established observations.
• Project outcomes include interactive maps and quantified diversity changes, indicating processed and visualized outputs.
• Temporal coverage is explicitly stated as 2011-2014, providing a defined study period.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the specific study period and Great Barrier Reef focus.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Aggregation and analysis of existing long-term and large-scale monitoring data.

Time Range

2011-2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-10 22:58:48.198772; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Barrier Reef, Australia