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Seabed Biodiversity on the Continental Shelf of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Prawn Trawl)

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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The mobile invertebrate and fish biodiversity of the 200,000 km² area of the GBR shelf seabed was sampled by a 1 km tow of a 8 fthm otter trawl (single high-flying Florida Flyer) at 458 sites, representing a wide range of known physical environments, during four 1-month-long voyages on the QDPIF vessel Gwendoline May. More than 4,800 species/species-equivalent OTUs (operational taxonomic units) were identified. The dataset comprises 42,813 site-by-species records.

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Field Value
Title Seabed Biodiversity on the Continental Shelf of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Prawn Trawl)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/7f830144-8978-4a39-bf1e-a73eb4476351
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
Roland.Pitcher@csiro.au
Reference Period 17/11/2003 - 04/03/2006
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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        142.6,
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      ],
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        153.4,
        -24.5
      ],
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        -10.7
      ],
      [
        142.6,
        -10.7
      ],
      [
        142.6,
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      ]
    ]
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}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "Seabed Biodiversity on the Continental Shelf of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Prawn Trawl)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/seabed-biodiversity-on-the-continental-shelf-of-the-great-barrier-reef-world-heritage-area-praw1