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Chlorophyll sampling in the coastal waters of south eastern Tasmania

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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Chlorophyll a concentration is widely used as a proxy to describe trends in phytoplankton biomass over spatial and temporal scales. The concentration of chlorophyll a in Storm Bay showed surprisingly little variation across the seasons. There was a gradient in concentration from site 1 to site 3, where chlorophyll a decreased slightly. It was highest and most variable at the inshore sites 1 and 9, and lowest at site 3, furthest out in the bay. There was no clear annually recurrent seasonal bloom, although data suggests higher values in spring and autumn (see later time series).

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Title Chlorophyll sampling in the coastal waters of south eastern Tasmania
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/4919318b-8b64-4c3a-acb9-ee17d73c33c3
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
k.swadling@utas.edu.au
Reference Period 01/11/2009 - 30/04/2015
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Chlorophyll sampling in the coastal waters of south eastern Tasmania". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/chlorophyll-sampling-in-the-coastal-waters-of-south-eastern-tasmania