Measuring the extent of coastal benthic habitats is an important indicator of biodiversity, and is essential for the assessment of environmental change. This project aims to; Assess the geomorphology and sediments in order to better identify the distributions of distinctive biological communities; Develop a standardised geomorphological classification system for benthic features that can be applied across the various study regions and nationally; Improve the accessibility to the new acoustic datasets and image products by housing them in a national database linked with OzEstuaries
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Organisation CRC for Coastal Zone Estuary and Waterway Management
Organisation other Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management
Name Brendan Brooke
Phone
Email brendan.brooke@ga.gov.au
Position in organisation
Monitoring Type Marine Habitat
Monitoring Indicators The extent of coastal benthic habbitats - assessing geomorphology and sediments to better identify distributions of distinctive biological communities
Monitoring location Australia-wide
Frequency of monitoring
Monitoring Start Date 01/01/2003
Monitoring End Date 30/06/2006
Location of monitoring data CRC for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management
Date quality / confidence Scientific
Website URL https://http://www.ozcoasts.gov.au/geom_geol/toolkit/highlights.jsp
Collaborators Geoscience Australia, Defense Sciene and Technology Organisation, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, University of Western Queensland, Curtin University of Technology
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