NERP TE Project 6.2 data from the Australian Ocean Data Network examines juvenile shark biodiversity and abundance in inshore nursery areas of the central Great Barrier Reef coast. The project investigates spatial and temporal changes and the effects of environmental drivers like habitat type and marine park zoning from 2011 to 2014. Results aim to inform fisheries and marine park managers about habitat importance and population sustainability.
Use Cases
- Modeling shark abundance based on inshore habitat type (protected bay vs. open coastline) mentioned in the description
- Assessing the impact of marine park zoning (areas open and closed to fishing) on nursery area function
- Analyzing the effect of environmental drivers like freshwater river discharge on shark biodiversity
Strengths
- Data collection covers a multi-year period from 2011 to 2014.
- Focuses on a specific geographic region: the central Great Barrier Reef coast.
- Project objectives are clearly defined to assess both spatial/temporal changes and environmental drivers.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to data_gov_au.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Likely contains field survey data from the NERP TE Project 6.2 research initiative.
- Time Range
- 2011-2014
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-10 21:39:34.982817; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Inshore ecosystems of the central Great Barrier Reef coast, Queensland, Australia