Reef Plan monitoring of inshore coral reef communities, Great Barrier Reef (RRMMP)

Created 24/06/2017

Updated 09/10/2017

Monitoring has been carried out on inshore reefs since 2005.

Benthic community monitoring program variables: percent cover of benthic organisms (hard corals, soft corals and macroalgae); settlement of coral larvae (numbers of spat settling to tiles) and densities of juvenile corals; numbers of genera; size distributions of coral colonies; prevalence of coral diseases; composition of benthic Foraminifera communities. Sediment sample variables: grain size fractions; nitrogen; organic, inorganic and total carbon.

Geographic areas (note not all locations have all data in all years) relate to Natural Resource Management (NRM): Wet Tropics NRM, Burdekin NRM, Mackay Whitsunday NRM, Fitzroy NRM.

Reef locations: Barren Island, Daydream Island, Dent Island, Double Cone Island, Dunk Island, Fitzroy Island, Frankland Group, Geoffrey Bay, Havannah Island, High Island, Hook Island, Humpy & Halfway Island, King Reef, Lady Elliot Reef, Middle Island, Middle Reef, North Barnard Group, North Keppel Island, Orpheus Island, Pandora Reef, Peak Island, Pelican Island, Pelorus Island, Pine Island, Seaforth Island, Shute & Tancred Island, Snapper Island, Cape Tribulation fringing reefs.

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Title Reef Plan monitoring of inshore coral reef communities, Great Barrier Reef (RRMMP)
Language English
Licence Other
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/b75019bb-9e5d-4415-9cc3-95394526d321
Contact Point
Australian Institute of Marine Science
adc@aims.gov.au
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [146.5428333, -18.84721667]}
Data Portal data.gov.au

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This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "Reef Plan monitoring of inshore coral reef communities, Great Barrier Reef (RRMMP)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/reef-plan-monitoring-of-inshore-coral-reef-communities-great-barrier-reef-rrmmp

No duplicate datasets found.