Temperate Australian quantitative spatial and temporal abundance data for rocky reef biota (biodiversity): long-term Tasmanian MPAs - Governor Island

The data is quantitative abundance of fish and megafaunal invertebrates and algal % cover derived from transect based counts at a wide range of locations across Temperate Australia. The methods are described in detail in Edgar and Barrett (1997). Primarily the data are derived from transects at 5 m depth and/or 10 m depth at each site surveyed. Methods were initially developed for research on temporal changes following protection in Tasmanian long-term MPAs (Maria Is, Tinderbox, Ninepin Point, Governor Island), and the data represented by this record has been collected at Governor Island. In many cases the dataset involves temporal replication (year scale), particularly for the core Tasmanian MPAs represented by this record.

该数据集包含澳大利亚温带地区多个地点基于样带计数得到的鱼类、巨型无脊椎动物的定量丰度数据，以及藻类覆盖百分比数据。其调查方法在Edgar和Barrett（1997）的研究中已有详细描述。数据主要来源于每个调查站点5米和/或10米水深的样带。这些方法最初是为研究塔斯马尼亚长期海洋保护区（MPA）（玛丽亚岛、Tinderbox、Ninepin Point、总督岛）受保护后的时间变化而开发的，本记录中的数据采集于总督岛。该数据集在多数情况下包含时间重复观测（以年为尺度），尤其是本记录所涉及的塔斯马尼亚核心海洋保护区。