Review of research and data relevant to marine environmental management of Australia's North West Shelf.

The region of interest for this study was Australias North West Shelf, extending from the inter-tidal zone to the continental shelf break, with particular focus on data relevant to the area between North West Cape and Port Hedland. The principal resource used for identification of existing data and information was the bibliography assembled by Jernakoff et al. (2006). This document provides an overview of the relevance of existing information to the North West Shelf Marine Environmental Management Study (NWSMEMS). It identifies gaps in knowledge that are likely to be important to the NWSMEMS and makes recommendations for addressing these gaps. The review presents information on the marine environment, grouped into physical, chemical and biological themes. This summary at the beginning of the document presents our major conclusions about the relevance of existing knowledge and about major gaps in information, and our recommendations for future research.

本研究的关注区域为澳大利亚西北陆架（Australia's North West Shelf），范围覆盖从潮间带（inter-tidal zone）至大陆架坡折带（continental shelf break）的全域，重点聚焦西北角（North West Cape）与黑德兰港（Port Hedland）之间的海域。本研究用于识别现有数据与资料的核心资源为Jernakoff等（2006）汇编的参考文献目录。该文档概述了现有资料与西北陆架海洋环境管理研究（North West Shelf Marine Environmental Management Study, NWSMEMS）的相关性，明确了对NWSMEMS而言具有重要意义的知识空白，并提出了填补这些空白的相关建议。本次综述将海洋环境相关信息按物理、化学、生物三大主题进行分类整理。本文档开篇的本总结部分，阐述了我们关于现有知识相关性、信息领域主要空白的核心结论，以及针对未来研究的相关建议。