Biologically Important Area data are spatially defined areas where aggregations of individuals of a regionally significant species are known to display biologically important behaviours such as breeding, foraging, resting or migration. This layer was originally produced by the Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, 2015), and has been cropped to Victoria's state boundaries, and queried for temperate east marine regions (SEMR- south east marine region).
Search Words:
Society
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Oceans
Publication Date:
15 November 2022
Dataset Status:
complete
Completeness Verification: complete
Progress:
Completed
Access Constraint:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY)
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General
Data Existence:
Metadata Name
Descriptions
Resource Name:
BIOLOGICALLY_IMPORTANT_AREAS
Title:
Biologically Important Areas
Anzlic ID:
ANZVI0803009496
Custodian:
Owner:
Jurisdiction:
Victoria
Abstract:
Biologically Important Area data are spatially defined areas where aggregations of individuals of a regionally significant species are known to display biologically important behaviours such as breeding, foraging, resting or migration. This layer was originally produced by the Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, 2015), and has been cropped to Victoria's state boundaries, and queried for temperate east marine regions (SEMR- south east marine region).
Search Words:
Society
,
Oceans
Purpose:
Geographic Extent Polygon:
Geographic Bounding Box:
-34
141
150
-39
Beginning to Ending Date:
2011-05-04 - 2016-01-04
Maintainence and Update Frequency:
As needed
Stored Data Format:
Available Format(s) Types:
Digital
Positional Accuracy:
Spatial accuracy is based on the adminstrative units or source boundaries usd to depict boundaries, which includes a nominal buffer.
Attribute Accuracy:
All captured features have been populated for report title, year of the report, Coastal Board region, unique identifier assigned to report, link that allows the report to be directly referenced, and link to source website page.
Logical Consistency:
Validation for consistency and completeness for all items.
Data Source:
Dataset Source: The BIA spatial data was captured via discussions and workshops with numerous species experts and/or through projects with key scientists. Each polygon was validated for spatial consistency using the scientific knowledge of the species along with comprehensive feedback provided by the experts. While the polygons are not comprehensive nor represent absolute limits they represent the biologically important areas that have been identified to date. With further research, other important areas may be identified and/or the area identified in this data may be refined. In 2015 new information was gathered for the Blue Whale Conservation Plan. The aim of the detailed attribute information is to provide details about the data that cannot be spatially defined such as source information.
Dataset Originality: Derived
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