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Seabed Biodiversity on the Continental Shelf of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Epibenthic Sled)

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The benthic invertebrate, plant and fish biodiversity of the 200,000 km² area of the GBR shelf seabed was sampled by a 200 m tow of a 1.5 m epibenthic sled at 1191 sites, representing a full range of known physical environments, during six 1-month-long voyages on the AIMS vessel Lady Basten. More than 7,000 species/species-equivalent OTUs (operational taxonomic units) were identified. The dataset comprises 79,173 site-by-species records. A pipe-dredge was attached to the sled to collect sediment samples: a 500 ml subsample was processed for particle size and carbonate by Geoscience Australia; another 500 ml subsample was sieved on 1 mm mesh and preserved in 10% Formalin - Rose Bengal solution.

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Title Seabed Biodiversity on the Continental Shelf of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Epibenthic Sled)
Language eng
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Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/4b6a1358-97de-4cdf-acf1-08e71a0ad9c2
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Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
Roland.Pitcher@csiro.au
Reference Period 17/09/2003 - 09/11/2005
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[142.6, -24.5], [153.4, -24.5], [153.4, -10.7], [142.6, -10.7], [142.6, -24.5]]]}
Data Portal data.gov.au

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This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "Seabed Biodiversity on the Continental Shelf of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Epibenthic Sled)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/seabed-biodiversity-on-the-continental-shelf-of-the-great-barrier-reef-world-heritage-area-epib2