This repository contains the collated data associated with report for NESP Project 4.24 – Towards assessing the values of reefs in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. A synthesis of the existing scientific data on the coral reefs in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.
Report prepared by: Maya Srinivasan, Gemma Galbraith and Damien Burrows
Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWater), James Cook University
{width="100"}Suggested report citation: Srinivasan, M., Galbraith, G.F. and Burrows, D. (2025) NESP Project 4.24 – Towards assessing the values of reefs in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. A synthesis of the existing scientific data on the coral reefs in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. [DOI LINK PLACEHOLDER]
Data have been collated from existing sources and should be cited using original attribution.
Coral reef fish and benthic data
Ecological survey data collected by Reef Life Survey Foundation (RLS) were extracted from the following following datasets at https://portal.aodn.org.au/ And extracted using a bounding box with the following coordinates: -9.26N, -18.1S, 142.29E, 131.66W.
IMOS - National Reef Monitoring Network Sub-Facility - Global reef fish abundance and biomass
IMOS - National Reef Monitoring Network Sub-Facility - Global mobile macroinvertebrate abundance
IMOS - National Reef Monitoring Network Sub-Facility - Survey metadata
IMOS - National Reef Monitoring Network Sub-Facility - Global cryptobenthic fish abundance
IMOS - National Reef Monitoring Network Sub-Facility - Global off-transect species observations
IMOS - National Reef Monitoring Network Sub-Facility - Site information
Benthic data was provided directly by RLS (benthic photo annotation data - see rawdata - RLS_GOC_benthicdata.csv)
Hamish Malcolm provided raw data