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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.Lineage
Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeededNotes
CreditThis dataset is an output of the Great Barrier Reef Seabed Biodiversity Project, a collaboration between the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries (QDPI&F), and the Queensland Museum (QM)
funded by the CRC Reef Research Centre (CRC-Reef), the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC), and the National Oceans Office (NOO) of the Department of Environment and Water Resources. We gratefully acknowledge the support of end-user agencies Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), QDPI & Fisheries, Queensland Seafood Industry Association (QSIA) and the NOO, and the contributions of the project's Steering Committee members: David Williams (CRC-Reef), Dorothea Huber & Phil Cadwallader (GBRMPA), Brigid Kerrigan & Malcolm Dunning (QDPI&F), Duncan Souter, Barry Ehrke & Martin Hicks (QSIA), Vicki Nelson (NOO) and Vern Veitch (Sunfish). We also wish to thank the multi-agency teams and the crews of the RV Lady Basten (AIMS) and FRV Gwendoline May (QDPI&F) that contributed to the success of the fieldwork
the research agencies AIMS, CSIRO, QM, QDPI&F for providing support to the project
and all the project's team members without whose valuable efforts this project would not have been possible. A large number of other people also helped with aspects of the project and we are grateful for their assistance, including: Tony Reese, Steve Edgar, Mark Tonks, Quinton Dell, Gary Fry, William White, Al Graham, Louise Conboy, Spikey Riddoch, Bob Ward, Bronwyn Holmes, Tom Munro, Hiro Motomura, Mike Sugden, Henok Goitom, Barry Russell, Barry Hutchins, Martin Gomon and Di Bray.
Roland Pitcher (CSIRO)
Peter Doherty (AIMS)
John Hooper (QM)
Neil Gribble (QDPIF) plus 50 other contributors (see references)
Data time period: 2003-09-17 to 2005-11-09
text: westlimit=142.6; southlimit=-24.5; eastlimit=153.4; northlimit=-10.7; projection=GDA94
text: uplimit=6; downlimit=127
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Data available via Data Trawler (Data Link)
url :
https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/dataset.cfm?survey=LB200301&data_type=catch![]()
GBR Seabed Biodiversity Project report (Documentation Link)
url :
http://www.frdc.com.au/Archived-Reports/FRDC%20Projects/2003-021-DLD.pdf![]()
- Local : Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306007036
- Local : Marlin Record Number: 7036
- global : 8453621c-c978-4d19-a5a8-1beee037dbe5
