Map: Phytoplankton Provinces in the Australian Region

This dataset is a digitised version of an updated map of phytoplankton bioregions around Australia prepared by Dr Gustaaf Hallegraeff, of the University of Tasmania for the National Oceans Office, as part of the 'National Marine Bioregionalisation' project. It is an updated version of the map previously published Jeffrey & Hallegraeff in 1991 and is based on the original data which was collected by plankton nets and water bottle sampling, using light and electron microscopy for species identification, augmented by additional phytoplankton data collected in the period 1990-2004.

本数据集为经数字化处理的澳大利亚周边海域浮游植物（phytoplankton）生物区划最新分布图，该图由塔斯马尼亚大学的古斯塔夫·哈勒格拉夫（Gustaaf Hallegraeff）博士为澳大利亚国家海洋办公室制作，属于"全国海洋生物区划（National Marine Bioregionalisation）"项目的一部分。本数据集是1991年由杰弗里（Jeffrey）与哈勒格拉夫发表的原分布图的更新版本，其基于通过浮游生物网和采水器采样获取的原始资料，并借助光学显微镜与电子显微镜完成物种鉴定，同时补充了1990年至2004年间采集的额外浮游植物数据。