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Marine Habitats of Western Australia

Created 13/03/2025

Updated 13/03/2025

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This dataset consists of polygons delineating the broad-scale regional marine habitats of selected areas in Western Australia, mostly in existing and proposed marine conservation reserve areas. Habitat mapping was carried out by various organisations, including DPAW, using a range of methodologies over many years. Diverse classifications and habitat descriptions were standardised to the DPaW broad-scale Shallow-water Marine Habitat Classification scheme (SMHC) (Bancroft, 2003) after initial habitat mapping and classification work had been done. Habitat polygons are classified to the broad-scale ecological Community level and where more detailed data exist, local-scale Functional Group level (Bancroft, 2003). Polygons were attributed with habitat class names only, textual descriptions of these classes are provided in this metadata statement and further in Bancroft (2003).

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Title Marine Habitats of Western Australia
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/b70be4b0-be1d-4ba3-8e83-5f2687a475d9
Contact Point
CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere
Geoffrey.banks@dpaw.wa.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1981 - 31/12/2003
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[111.10367, -35.32429], [125.61416000000001, -35.32429], [125.61416000000001, -16.272864053988], [111.10367, -16.272864053988], [111.10367, -35.32429]]]}
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This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "Marine Habitats of Western Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/marine-habitats-of-western-australia