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Marine provincial bioregions – spatial metadata

Data structure

marine-bioregion-provincial

Field name Type Bytes Label Description
AreaID Text (UTF-8 encoded) 60 AreaID The unique identifier used in WetlandSummary
Name Text (UTF-8 encoded) 32 Name The name of the area used in WetlandSummary, excluding the area type
FullName Text (UTF-8 encoded) 60 Full name The name of the area used in WetlandSummary, including the area type
KML Text (UTF-8 encoded) 162 KML The URL of a simplified KML file depicting this area
TotalArea Double (8 byte floating point) 8 Area (km²) The total area in km²
PB_NAME Text (UTF-8 encoded) 32 PB_NAME
PB_NUM Short (2 byte integer) 2 PB_NUM
WATER_TYPE Text (UTF-8 encoded) 21 WATER_TYPE
AREA_KM2 Double (8 byte floating point) 8 AREA_KM2

Modifications

The marine provincial bioregions layer used by WetlandSummary is based on the source layers below, with the following modifications:

  • Name is the value of the PB_NAME field
  • Excluded area "Lord Howe Province" as it is not part of Queensland
  • Excluded 28 features outside of Queensland
  • Excluded a total of 1 feature by filtering
  • Clipped 4 features extending partially beyond the Queensland border (some may be due to minor misalignment at the border)

Source layer: Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA) v4.0 - Provincial Bioregions

(marine-bioregion-provincial/imcra4-pb.shp.xml)

Esri
Creation Date
2006-11-23
Creation Time
10:46:24
Modification Date
2013-06-03
Modification Time
11:20:24
Identification Information
Citation
Citation Information
Originator
REQUIRED: The name of an organization or individual that developed the data set.
Publication Date
REQUIRED: The date when the data set is published or otherwise made available for release.
Title
Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA) v4.0 - Provincial Bioregions
File or Table Name
imcra4_pb
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Description
Abstract
REQUIRED: A brief narrative summary of the data set.
Purpose
REQUIRED: A summary of the intentions with which the data set was developed.
Status
Progress
REQUIRED: The state of the data set.
Maintenance and Update Frequency
REQUIRED: The frequency with which changes and additions are made to the data set after the initial data set is completed.
Keywords
Theme
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
REQUIRED: Reference to a formally registered thesaurus or a similar authoritative source of theme keywords.
Theme Keyword
REQUIRED: Common-use word or phrase used to describe the subject of the data set.
Access Constraints
REQUIRED: Restrictions and legal prerequisites for accessing the data set.
Use Constraints
REQUIRED: Restrictions and legal prerequisites for using the data set after access is granted.
Dist Info
Distributor
Distor Cont
Contact—organization name
Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Rp Cnt Info
Cnt Address
City
CANBERRA
Country
Australia
Contact email address
metadata♲environment.gov.au
Role
details available on request
Data Quality Information
Lineage
details available on request
Data Id Info
Additional human language abstract/description
A regionalisation of Australian waters (excluding waters adjacent to the Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, and waters adjacent to the Australian Antarctic Territory) derived from deep-water demersal fish assemblages. A total of 41 onshelf and offshelf provincial bioregions were identified for IMCRA v4.0.

Onshelf provincial bioregions are based on the 17 IMCRA v3.3 demersal provinces and biotones identified in 1997.

Offshelf provincial bioregions were defined in 2004 as part of a program run by Geoscience Australia, CSIRO Marine Research and the National Oceans Office. They represent units that contain broad patterns in biodiversity, as represented by deep-water demersal fish assemblages, based on the assumption that the demersal fish distributions are a surrogate of marine faunal distributions. Below 2,000 m water depth, the boundaries of the benthic provincial bioregions are defined solely by the NMB (National Marine Bioregionalisation) geomorphic features data set. A total of 24 offshelf benthic provincial bioregions were defined on this basis, including 15 core bioregions representing areas of endemism, and 9 transition zones representing areas of faunal mixing.

For IMCRA v4.0 the coastline was replaced with the national 100k coastline to provide greater consistency. The Australian EEZ limit was sourced from AMB v2. Based on a decision by the Bioregionalisation Working Group, the shelf break from IMCRA v3.3 was largely retained, although in some instances the shelf break from the NMB (National Marine Bioregionalisation) provincial bioregions was used.
Res Const
Leg Consts
Security use limitations
None.
Legal constraints; text
The data are available to the public under licence from the Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities as part of the Commonwealth Spatial Data Access and Pricing Policy.
Id Citation
Title
Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA) v4.0 - Provincial Bioregions
Alternate title
N:\Marine\data\bioregionalisation\imcra\imcra4\data\imcra4_pb.shp
Cit Resp Party
Contact—organization name
Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Contact—position name
Marine Data Manager
Rp Cnt Info
Cnt Address
City
Canberra
Country
Australia
Contact email address
marine.metadata♲environment.gov.au
Role
details available on request
Cit Resp Party
Contact—organization name
Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Contact—position name
Metadata Publisher
Rp Cnt Info
Cnt Address
City
CANBERRA
Country
Australia
Contact email address
metadata♲environment.gov.au
Role
details available on request
Id Po C
Contact—organization name
Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Contact—position name
Marine Data Manager
Rp Cnt Info
Cnt Address
City
Canberra
Country
Australia
Contact email address
marine.metadata♲environment.gov.au
Role
details available on request
Supplemental information about the data
not to be published
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version
FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary
Contact Person
REQUIRED: The person responsible for the metadata information.
Contact Organization
REQUIRED: The organization responsible for the metadata information.
Contact Address
Address Type
REQUIRED: The mailing and/or physical address for the organization or individual.
City
REQUIRED: The city of the address.
State or Province
REQUIRED: The state or province of the address.
Postal Code
REQUIRED: The ZIP or other postal code of the address.
Contact Voice Telephone
REQUIRED: The telephone number by which individuals can speak to the organization or individual.
Metadata Date
2011-08-19
Distribution Information
Resource Description
not recorded
Entity and Attribute Information
details available on request
Dq Info
Data Lineage
Lineage statement, a general explanation
The benthic Provincial Bioregions were defined in 2004 as part of a program run by Geoscience Australia, CSIRO Marine Research and the National Oceans Office to create a spatial inventory of large-scale benthic biogeographical regions for Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone. The Provincial Bioregions were defined by the regional structure in demersal fishes as represented by a one-dimensional &quotestring&quote made up of 281 nodes that correspond to the 500 m isobath around the Australian mainland. The analysis of the demersal fish data was undertaken by CSIRO Marine Research (Last et al., 2004). None of the offshore island territories were included in this assessment and each island territory was considered a separate bioregion. The boundaries of the Provincial Bioregions below 2,000 m water depth were defined solely by the geomorphic features, which were defined by the International Hydrographic Office (IHO, 2002), and were identified using a 250 m spatial resolution bathymetry model with reference to previously published geological studies. In the analysis of the demersal fish data, the boundaries between the Provincial Bioregions were defined by a Jaccard Analysis of the distributions. The final boundaries were drawn by eye around the boundaries of geomorphic features by a panel of scientific experts at a series of workshops with reference to previous studies. When completed, the boundaries defined the separate polygons and they were stored as an ArcGIS shape file. Care was taken to include as much biological information as possible when positioning the boundaries, particularly in shallow water (&lt500 m).

This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (n.d.) Marine provincial bioregions – spatial metadata, WetlandInfo website, accessed 18 March 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/facts-maps/get-mapping-help/metadata/marine-bioregion-provincial/

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