Biologically Important Areas

dataset: BIOLOGICALLY_IMPORTANT_AREAS
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).
 
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Biologically Important Areas

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
 

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Identifiers and Keywords

ANZLIC Id
ANZVI0803009496 
Victorian Spatial Data Library (VSDL) Schema
COASTS:BIOLOGICALLY_IMPORTANT_AREAS 
Jurisdiction
Victoria 
Topic category
  • Society
  • Oceans
 

Resource Constraints

Use limitation
General 
Classification
Unclassified  
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY)
 

Other Dataset Details

Date ( Revision )
2022-11-18
Date ( Publication )
2022-11-15T01:01:28
Status
Completed  
Supplemental Information
Related Documents: None 
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed  
Maintenance date ( Publication )
2022-11-15T01:01:28
 

Spatial

Spatial representation type
Vector  
Description
General - Victoria 
Reference system identifier
4283

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Temporal

Begin date
2011-05-04 
End date
2016-01-04 
 

Quality

Conceptual Consistency
Validation for consistency and completeness for all items. 
Missing Data
complete Completeness Verification: complete 
Excess Data
complete 
Attribute Quality
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. 
Positional Accuracy
Spatial accuracy is based on the adminstrative units or source boundaries usd to depict boundaries, which includes a nominal buffer. 
 

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Statement
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 
 

Attributes

Column Name Obligation Unique Data Type Data Length Data Precision Data Scale Reference Table Owner Reference Table Name Reference Table Code Column Name Short Column Name Definition
PROGRAM O N VARCHAR2 254 PROGRAM
SPECIES O N VARCHAR2 100 SPECIES
THREATENED O N VARCHAR2 100 THREATENED
AGGREGATE O N VARCHAR2 254 AGGREGATE
LEVEL_DESC O N VARCHAR2 254 LEVEL_DESC
SE_ANNO_CAD_DATA O N BLOB 4000 SEANNOCAD
SPAT_DATE O N VARCHAR2 10 SPAT_DATE
ECO_REASON O N VARCHAR2 254 ECO_REASON
CETACEAN_E O N VARCHAR2 100 CETACEAN_E
EXPERT_NAM O N VARCHAR2 254 EXPERT_NAM
OCCURRENCE O N VARCHAR2 254 OCCURRENCE
REVIEWED O N VARCHAR2 75 REVIEWED
EXTRA_COM O N VARCHAR2 254 EXTRA_COM
LEGEND O N VARCHAR2 50 LEGEND
BREEDING O N VARCHAR2 254 BREEDING
COMMENTS O N VARCHAR2 254 COMMENTS
SPECIES_GR O N VARCHAR2 50 SPECIES_GR
SOURCE_CAT O N VARCHAR2 254 SOURCE_CAT
USE_LEVEL O N VARCHAR2 254 USE_LEVEL
COM_NAME O N VARCHAR2 100 COM_NAME
REGION O N VARCHAR2 50 REGION
LOCATION O N VARCHAR2 254 LOCATION
SOURCE_DES O N VARCHAR2 254 SOURCE_DES
OTHER O N VARCHAR2 254 OTHER
SCI_ADVICE O N VARCHAR2 254 SCI_ADVICE
CONTACT O N VARCHAR2 254 CONTACT
GENUS O N VARCHAR2 100 GENUS
REVIEW_COM O N VARCHAR2 254 REVIEW_COM
TAXON_ID O N VARCHAR2 50 TAXON_ID
MIGRATORY_ O N VARCHAR2 100 MIGRATORY_
REVIEW_DAT O N VARCHAR2 10 REVIEW_DAT
MIGRATION O N VARCHAR2 254 MIGRATION
MARINE_EPB O N VARCHAR2 100 MARINE_EPB
FORAGING O N VARCHAR2 254 FORAGING
SEASON O N VARCHAR2 254 SEASON
 

About the Metadata Record

Metadata identifier
679ae614-754a-5e17-a04b-0fe8531db8be

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Date info ( Revision )
2022-11-18
Standard Name
ISO 19115-3:2018 
Profile Name
DELWP Profile 
Profile Version
Version 1 
Profile Date
2019-05-24  
 

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