Marine Biodiversity Values (MBV)

dataset: MARINE_BIO_VALUES
A spatial assessment of Victoria’s listed and key marine and coastal biodiversity features. The objective of this work is to support planning decisions across Victoria’s marine and coastal environment by synthesising currently available species information and providing a first iteration MBV map. This report presents the methods that underpin Victoria’s MBV map, detailing the input data sources for each species represented in the map as well as the spatial prioritisation approach employed. The analysis ranks all locations across Victoria’s marine environment for their ability to represent key marine and coastal biodiversity features. Biodiversity features is a term widely used in conservation biology (Margules and Pressey, 2000) and adopted in this report to represent important biodiversity values and alignment with Marxan and Zonation, two of the most widely used conservation-planning decision-support tools (Moilanen et al., 2009).
 
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Marine Biodiversity Values (MBV)

 

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Title
Marine Biodiversity Values (MBV) 
Alternate title
MARINE_BIO_VALUES 
Purpose
DEECA made the MBV map by assessing data and spatial information. The map ranks all locations across Victoria's marine waters and 5km inland, from low (0) to high (100). A location with a high value (close to 100) supports many different marine and coastal biodiversity features. These are important areas, few or no other locations have the same features. 
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  • Imagery base maps earth cover
  • Geoscientific information
 
 

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2023-07-012024-05-15 
 
 

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