Oceanic Shoals Marine Reserve Biodiversity Survey Report, 2012

A 2012 marine biodiversity survey report for the Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Reserve in the Timor Sea. The report details activities by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Geoscience Australia, the University of Western Australia, and the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Data from the survey supports the Australian Government's National Environmental Research Program Marine Biodiversity Hub.

Use Cases

• Supporting marine bioregional planning based on regional biodiversity discovery activities.
• Modeling northern Australian ecosystem processes based on collected survey data.
• Informing departmental environmental work programs based on the survey findings.

Strengths

• Report details a multi-institutional survey involving four major Australian research bodies.
• Survey was conducted in 2012 within a designated Commonwealth Marine Reserve.

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.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Marine biodiversity survey conducted by research institutions.

Time Range

2012

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 04:05:57.503710; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Oceanic Shoals Commonwealth Marine Reserve, Timor Sea