Bioregionalisation in the Australian South-East Marine Region

The National Oceans Office undertook in September 2001 an analysis of Bioregionalisation for the Australian South-east Marine Region, an integration of geological, oceanographic and biological data as the basis for bioregionalisation. The biological and physical assessment was intended to contribute to the implementation of ecosystem-based management in the South-east Marine Region by developing a shared understanding of the ecosystem. The assessment had two streams, ecosystem structure and ecosystem function and incorporated the input from these projects among others: - Production of a consistent, high quality bathymetric data grid for the south-east marine region. - Seabed characterisation including geomorphology, acoustic facies and seabed sampling (GA) - Computer sediment modelling (GEOMAT) - Refine Broad Scale Bioregionalisation (Provinces and Biomes) (CSIRO) - Upgrade deepwater nutrient, water properties and ocean current models (CSIRO) - Rapid assembly of ecological fish data (CSIRO Marine Research in collaboration with Australian Museum, Victoria Museum and NSW Fisheries) - Rapid assembly of ecological invertebrate data (Museum Victoria in partnership with Australia Museum and CSIRO Marine Research) - Bioregionalisation analysis for the South-east Marine Region (CSIRO Marine Research and Australian Geological Survey Organisation [GA]) This dataset contains the spatial distribution of the physical and biological components of the Region resulting from bioregionalisation analysis for the South-east Marine Region. Further detail will be available in the report entitled "An Interim, Draft bioregionalisation for the continental slope and deeper waters of the South-East Marine Region of Australia" by A. Butler, P. Harris et al. (draft only available at time of this metadata compilation).国家海洋办公室（National Oceans Office）于2001年9月针对澳大利亚东南海洋区域开展了生物区域化（Bioregionalisation）分析，该分析以整合地质、海洋学与生物学数据作为生物区域化的实施基础。本次生物与物理评估旨在通过构建对该生态系统的统一认知，助力东南海洋区域落地基于生态系统的管理模式。 本次评估涵盖两大研究方向：生态系统结构与生态系统功能，并整合了以下多个项目的研究成果： - 为东南海洋区域生成统一、高质量的水深数据网格； - 海床特征刻画，涵盖地貌学、声学相（acoustic facies）与海床采样（澳大利亚地质调查局，GA）； - 计算机沉积物模拟（GEOMAT项目）； - 优化大范围生物区域化划分（生物区与生物群系）（联邦科学与工业研究组织，CSIRO）； - 升级深水营养盐、海水属性与海流模型（CSIRO）； - 快速整合鱼类生态数据（由CSIRO海洋研究所与澳大利亚博物馆、维多利亚博物馆、新南威尔士州渔业局合作完成）； - 快速整合无脊椎动物生态数据（由维多利亚博物馆与澳大利亚博物馆、CSIRO海洋研究所合作开展）； - 东南海洋区域生物区域化分析（CSIRO海洋研究所与澳大利亚地质调查局，GA）。 本数据集包含基于东南海洋区域生物区域化分析所得的该区域物理与生物组分的空间分布信息。更多详细内容可参阅A. Butler、P. Harris等人撰写的《澳大利亚东南海洋区域大陆坡及深水区临时生物区域化草案》报告，本元数据汇编完成时仅可获取该草案版本。