Extract_Kerguelen_Plateau_Environmental_Layers

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

This dataset contains environmental layers used to model the predicted distribution of demersal fish bioregions for the paper: Hill et al. (2020) Determining Marine Bioregions: A comparison of quantitative approaches, Methods in Ecology and Evolution. It contains climatological variables from satellite and modelled data that represent sea floor and sea surface conditions likely to affect the distribution of demersal fish including: depth, slope, seafloor temperatures, seafloor current, seafloor nitrate, sea surface temperature, chlorophyll-a standard deviation and sea surface height standard deviation. Layers are presented at 0.1 degree resolution. "prediction_space" is a Rda file for R that consists of two objects: env_raster: a raster stack of the environmental layers pred_sp: a data.frame version of the env_raster where some variables have been transformed for statistical analysis and bioregion prediction. "Env_data_sources.xlsx" contains a description of each environmental variable and it's source.

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Title Extract_Kerguelen_Plateau_Environmental_Layers
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/db11c9a8-1a67-43ab-a05f-9142e5bf9ed4
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
metadata@aad.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1982 - 31/12/2014
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        70.0,
        -54.0
      ],
      [
        78.0,
        -54.0
      ],
      [
        78.0,
        -50.0
      ],
      [
        70.0,
        -50.0
      ],
      [
        70.0,
        -54.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Extract_Kerguelen_Plateau_Environmental_Layers". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/extract_kerguelen_plateau_environmental_layers