Coral reef health database (Reef Check Australia)

The Reef Check Australia monitoring program acts as an early warning system for coral community health. Annual surveys provide long-term data that can reveal patterns over time. Trained community volunteers collect quantitative data on the Great Barrier Reef and in the Southeast Queensland coral habitats. Data include substrate percent cover, abundance of key invertebrate species and target fish species. Data on natural and anthropogenic impacts on coral community health are also recorded. The Reef Check method is used which is used in 90 countries world-wide, making these results directly comparable globally.



Data units:

Quantitative, integer, discrete (e.g number of fish, invertebrates etc).

Percentage (e.g. percent coral cover)

Categorical (e.g. siltation level: low, medium, high)

Simple

Identification info

Date (Publication)
2010-01-01
Date
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Principal investigator Reef Check Australia Voice Facsimile PO Box 13204 George St Brisbane Queensland 4003 Australia database@reefcheckaustralia.org
Point of contact
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Point of contact Reef Check Australia Voice Facsimile PO Box 13204 George St, 4003 Brisbane Queensland 4003 Australia support@reefcheckaustralia.org
Spatial representation type
Vector
Topic category
  • Biota

Extent

Extent

Description
GBR and Ningaloo




Extent type code
false




Temporal extent

Time position
2001-01-01
Time position
2015-01-15
Keywords (Theme)
  • marine
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • KML

OnLine resource
Reef check season reports and Google Earth data.

OnLine resource
Reef check raw data. Access to the data requires the signing of a custom data license agreement and emailing Reefcheck Australia.

OnLine resource
Shapefile of the Reef Check sites as of 2015-01-15 [Zip 5 kB]

OnLine resource
ea-2015:GBR_ReefCheck_Survey-sites_20150115

OnLine resource
Interactive map of this dataset. This is the same of the Reef Check KML (with sites as per Jan 2015)

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/e8854605-d169-44ca-9364-aa5c2c87ff67

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Point of contact Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) eAtlas Data Manager Voice Facsimile PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE Townsville Queensland 4810 Australia e-atlas@aims.gov.au
Parent metadata

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/e8854605-d169-44ca-9364-aa5c2c87ff67

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2015-12-10T15:26:59
Date info (Revision)
2024-02-01T10:42:25

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

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Spatial extent

Keywords

marine


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