29a46da3-ab29-4459-9b2a-f9990f54b6d7 urn:uuid eng UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2025-06-23T16:14:51 creation ISO 19115 2016 Coral reef health database (Reef Check Australia) 29a46da3-ab29-4459-9b2a-f9990f54b6d7 The Reef Check Australia monitoring program acts as an early warning system for coral community health. Annual surveys provide long-term data that can reveal patterns over time. Trained community volunteers collect quantitative data on the Great Barrier Reef and in the Southeast Queensland coral habitats. Data include substrate percent cover, abundance of key invertebrate species and target fish species. Data on natural and anthropogenic impacts on coral community health are also recorded. The Reef Check method is used which is used in 90 countries world-wide, making these results directly comparable globally. Data units: Quantitative, integer, discrete (e.g number of fish, invertebrates etc). Percentage (e.g. percent coral cover) Categorical (e.g. siltation level: low, medium, high) marine Reef check season reports and Google Earth data. documentDigital HTML Reef check raw data. Access to the data requires the signing of a custom data license agreement and emailing Reefcheck Australia. documentDigital HTML Shapefile of the Reef Check sites as of 2015-01-15 [Zip 5 kB] documentDigital HTML ea-2015:GBR_ReefCheck_Survey-sites_20150115 documentDigital WMS Interactive map of this dataset. This is the same of the Reef Check KML (with sites as per Jan 2015) documentDigital HTML