AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Owner Advantage in the fiddler crab, Uca mjoebergi. Are owners more motivated than floaters because they have invested in neighbour relations?

Resource owners generally win contests against intruders, a phenomenon referred to as the 'Owner Advantage' (OA). Uca mjoebergi is a typical fiddler crab that is highly sociable, territorial and lives in mixed sex colonies on intertidal mudflats. Burrows are used in territory defence, for mating, and as refuge from predators and environmental stresses. Fights are common between owners and floating males who battle for ownership of the territory and burrow. 
Experiments were conducted from 28th Sept - 30 Dec 2006 at the lower reaches of Ludmilla Creek within East Point Reserve, 5km North of Darwin, NT. Previous experiments have revealed that owners win more contests than floaters because they are more motivated. This experiment was designed to test if owners are more motivated than floaters because they have invested more in neighbour relations.
The results indicate that the total amount of time a male has been present in a territory did not affect his fighting succes. The amount of time he spent on the surface or with his burrow open represented the time he could interact with neighbours, had a marginally significant influence on fighting success. Establishing relations with neighbours appear to convey at least a small increase in motivation leading to a weak fighting advantage.

Tags: 28960043, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Community Structure, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Competition, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Dominance, Biosphere | Zoology | Crustaceans, Fiddler crabs, Neighbour Relations, Owner Advantage, Uca mjoebergi
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Spatially explicit current and future threats to seagrass habitats in Australia

This mapped dataset is a compilation of spatially explicit, nation-wide threats to seagrass based on current pressures and projected future climate change pressures. In addition, the value of this mapped dataset can potentially extend to assess threats to other coastal habitats. Current threats in this mapped dataset include urban/agricultural runoff, industrial pollution, sediment resuspension, port infrastructure and dredging, shipping accidents, oil and gas accidents. Future threats in this mapped dataset include modelled increase in sea surface temperature for 2070, modelled increase in total annual rainfall for 2070 and modelled increase in sea level rise for 2070. All threats in this mapped dataset are given as a single ArcGIS polygon shapefile composed of 10 x 10 km coastal grid cells.

Tags: Australia, BOUNDARIES-Biophysical, ECOLOGY-Habitat, ECOLOGY-Landscape, INDUSTRY, MARINE-Coasts, MARINE-Estuaries, New South Wales, Northern Territory, POLLUTION-Water, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Biodiversity, and the factors controlling it, for selected habitats in the Timor Sea region: Physical Oceanography of Karmt Shoals

Despite the major marine bioregions being broadly identified in north western Australia, there has been limited observation and documentation of the marine biodiversity present. The Oceanic Shoals bioregion, which includes numerous shelf edge reef systems, has been identified as a biodiversity hotspot for at least some major taxa, such as sponges, but past research has largely focused on the emergent reef systems at the western end of the bioregion. However, the most common reef types in the Oceanic Shoals bioregion do not reach the sea surface. These submerged reefs, which are biogenic in nature and rise out of deep water to between 10-50m below the sea surface, are very poorly understood and remain mostly to be explored and characterised. As mini seamounts, these reefs may well be areas of both biodiversity and biomass accumulation. The initial task for biodiversity surveys will be a census of submerged reefs to characterise the biodiversity, including its spatial pattern of habitats within reefs, then develop a regional model for habitat types and the location of any diversity hotspots. Integration with data on chemistry, oceanography and geology will be a feature of the Timor Sea study and will permit targeted multidisciplinary projects seeking to understand the processes that sustain the biota of the region. To this end, the distribution of shelf edge upwelling phenomena and natural hydrocarbon seeps, both potentially significant attributes of the bioregion, will be investigated and integrated with data on biodiversity patterns. This report summarises the deployment of 2 instrumented moorings in 50 and 100m water depth near Karmt Shoals in the Oceanic Shoals Bioregion of the Timor Sea. Moorings were set in January 2004, recovered and redeployed in April 2004, and finally recovered in December 2004.

Tags: Biodiversity, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Advection, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Eddies, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Fronts, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Gyres, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Mixed Layer, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Thermohaline Circulation, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Turbulence, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Upwelling, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Water Masses, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Wind-driven Circulation, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Thermocline, Oceans | Tides | Tidal Currents, Physical Oceanography
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Benthic Communities of the Gunn Point Peninsula, 2020

This polygon spatial dataset describes the benthic habitats likely to occur in marine environments around Gunn Point Peninsula and informs the desktop assessment of the marine biodiversity values for the region.
The benthic habitats are inferred from existing information but in most cases require further data collection to validate and refine.
Habitat modelling forms the basis of benthic community value assessment for Shoal Bay (Galaiduk et al. 2019).
The accompanying report Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Assessment of the Gunn Point Area (2020) forms part of the Mapping the Future Project - Gunn Point.
This project has identified land capability, water availability and biodiversity values to support land planning and inform development potential over the Gunn Point area. Reports and maps can be viewed from the webpage: denr.nt.gov.au/land-resource-management/development-opportunities

Development Potential of the Gunn Point Area (2020)
Biodiversity Assessment of the Gunn Point Area (2020)
Groundwater Resources of the Gunn Point Area (2020)
Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Assessment of the Gunn Point Area (2020)
Soil and Land Resources of the Gunn Point Area (2020)
Soil and Land Suitability Assessment for Irrigated Agriculture in the Gunn Point Area (2017)
Vegetation Communities of the Gunn Point Area (2020)


Tags: Benthic habitat
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
ERIN Dual-processed Landsat TM tiles in Western Australia - Dongara tile

A Landsat TM image was cut using a NATMAP Geoscience Australia 1:250 000 scale map named Dongara (Map number SH50-5) and was saved in GeoTIFF format.
The image was geometrically rectified to GDA94 (Datum) and MGA50 (Projection) and a dual enhancement technique was conducted to Landsat TM satellite data where land was enhanced using bands 741 (RGB) and water was enhanced using bands 321 (RGB).  This is one of a series of tiles processed by ERIN from Coastal Atlas project in the 1990's.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Age vs. Depth of core MD032607 (off South Australia). Age has been calculated through modelling based on oxygen isotope records from Globigerina bulloides

The age with depth of core MD032607 is calculated through 18O values, which are then correlated with the SPECMAP age-model. Based upon these measurements the age at the deepest part of the core (3270cm) is ~176,590yrs BP. The age vs. depth profile for this core indicates a major increase in the sedimentation rate during the initial phase of MIS 6, when the sedimentation rate is ~41cm/1000yrs. The average sedimentation rate over the length of the core is 18.7cm/1000yrs.

Tags: 51200000, Age vs. depth profile, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sedimentation, Paleoclimate | Ocean/lake Records | Oxygen Isotopes, age_of_core, core_depth
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment in Western Australia off Two Rocks (September 2011)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters including dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Slocum glider in the region of Two Rocks (Western Australia).
Slocum glider data from the oceans around Australia have been collected by the Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), since June 2008 and are ongoing. The data are obtained from an onboard suite of instruments which include Seabird-SBE41 CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth), WETLabs BBFL2SLO 3 parameter optical sensor (measuring Chlorophyll-a, CDOM and 700nm Backscatter) and an Aanderaa oxygen optode (measuring concentration of dissolved oxygen in seawater.

Tags: CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), Countries | Australia, Fluorometers, Glider, IMOS Node | Bluewater and Climate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Slocum Glider, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia, concentration_of_coloured_dissolved_organic_matter, fluorescence_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_oxygen_in_sea_water, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, volumetric_backscatter_coefficient
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Datasets relating to five cores taken from different locations on Wistari Reef

Wistari Reef is a lagoonal platform reef, situated on the Tropic of Capricorn, within the Capricorn and Bunker region of the southern Great Barrier Reef. Fives cores were collected and analysed for 14C radiocarbon dating, sedimentation rates and granulometry data. The effects of bioturbation within the cores was pronounced, and as such ages were likely to be undersestimated for deeper samples, and overestimated for shallower samples. From the results, the oldest age estimate obtained was from the base of core VC-01 and was aged at 2150±70 yr BP. All core tops were estimated to be ~1100±70 yr BP. The biggest maximum rate of accretion was seen at core IC-02, which exhibited an accretion rate of 4.79m/ka. The smallest minimum accretion rate was seen in VC-02 (on a sanded reef flat) with a accretion rate of 0.57m/ka.

Tags: Oceans | Coastal Processes | Coral Reefs, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sediment Composition | Grain Size, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sedimentation, Paleoclimate | Ocean/lake Records | Radiocarbon
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Recreational Fisheries Databases

The section manages recreational fishing information obtained from ongoing provision of data from Angling Club Field Day Records Book, Angler's Log Book, surveys completed by Fisheries Officers and VFLO surveys. Information is now obtained from licenced charter boat operators who have been providing returns since September 2001.
The section also monitors the general public participation rate and satisfaction with recreational fishing and awareness of the Department's various roles annually based on a phone survey. Similarly, information on recreational catch and fishing effort for the abalone, marron, SW freshwater angling and rock lobster fisheries is collected and reported using an annual telephone survey of licence holders.
Time: ongoing.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Albert River Continuous Water Quality Station

SEQ Peri-urban Supersite Albert River. The SEQ Peri-urban Supersite was established under TERN in 2010. It provides extensive new research infrastructure for scientists to determine if key ecosystem services such as high-quality water can be maintained in a rapidly urbanising environment. The supersite comprises one node north of Brisbane City and two nodes to the south. At the northern site, in the Samford Valley, the focus is on the study of terrestrial biogeochemistry managed by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) through the Samford Ecological Research Facility (SERF). The southern-most site, in the catchments of the Logan and Albert Rivers, has a strong aquatic biogeochemistry focus; it is managed by CSIRO. The third node, Karawatha Forest, has a biodiversity focus and is managed by Griffith University.
In the SEQ Peri-urban Supersites located on the Logan and Albert River, high-frequency biogeochemical and ecological studies are under way to help scientists understand why they contribute such high loads of nitrogen and sediment into Moreton Bay. Permanent measurement stations have been established at both nodes to provide continuous water quality and flow data. The stations consist of physico-chemical sensors to measure temperature, pH (degree of acidity or alkalinity), Eh (the redox, or reduction-oxidation, character of the water), conductivity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, chlorophyll, blue green algae, CDOM and nitrate; and a velocity Doppler to measure river flow and height. These measurements will help researchers to quantify land-use change.

Tags: Albert River, South-east Queenland, albert river, aquatic biogeochemistry, catchment, ecology, ecosystem services, high-frequency biogeochemical, logan river, peri-urban, sediment, supersites, water quality monitoring
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment in Western Australia off Two Rocks (June - July 2011)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters including dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Slocum glider in the region of Two Rocks (Western Australia).
Slocum glider data from the oceans around Australia have been collected by the Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), since June 2008 and are ongoing. The data are obtained from an onboard suite of instruments which include Seabird-SBE41 CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth), WETLabs BBFL2SLO 3 parameter optical sensor (measuring Chlorophyll-a, CDOM and 700nm Backscatter) and an Aanderaa oxygen optode (measuring concentration of dissolved oxygen in seawater.

Tags: CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), Countries | Australia, Fluorometers, Glider, IMOS Node | Bluewater and Climate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Slocum Glider, States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia, concentration_of_coloured_dissolved_organic_matter, fluorescence_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_oxygen_in_sea_water, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, volumetric_backscatter_coefficient
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Microzooplankton from oligotrophic waters off south west WA: Biomass, diversity and impact on phytoplankton

The abundance, biomass, and diversity of microzooplankton and their herbivorous impact on phytoplankton were examined on a cross shelf transect (see thumbnail), sampling five stations from February 2002 to December 2004, and in a pair of mesoscale eddies ~300km from the coast on the seaward side of the Leeuwin Current.  Prior to this study, no research on microzooplankton from temperate waters off Western Australia had been undertaken.

Tags: Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Food-web Dynamics, Biosphere | Microbiota | Ciliates, Biosphere | Microbiota | Flagellates, Biosphere | Microbiota | Phytoplankton, Biosphere | Microbiota | Protist, Biosphere | Zoology | Zooplankton, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Eddies, crustaceans, heterotrophic dinoflagellates, microzooplankton
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Thursday Island Automated Marine Weather And Oceanographic Station

This dataset contains meteorological and sea temperature data from the weather station located on the channel marker on Madge Reef, located between Thursday Island and Horn Island in the Torres Strait, installed under the Tropical Ecosystems hub of the National Environmental Research Program (NERP) and supported by the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA).
 These data are collected to support scientific research within the Tropical Ecosystems hub of the National Environmental Research Program (NERP - see: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/science/nerp/ ) Theme 1, Program 2.3 (Torres Strait).Data are made available on request to other researchers and to the public. This weather station is funded under the Tropical Ecosystems hub of the National Environmental Research Program (NERP) in conjunction with the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA).
 The weather station is an AIMS Mk5 system consisting of a Vaisala WXT520 weather station, a LiCor 192 Light Sensor and a number of in-water sensors including a SeaBird SBE37 CTD (Conductivity, Temperature and Depth) and SeaBird SBE39 (Temperature and Depth).Data recorded: Water Temperature (3m, 6.4 at MSL), Barometric Pressure, Air Temperature, Humidity, Solar Radiation (PAR), Wind Direction True (vector averaged), Wind Speed True (30 min average).The weather stations collect and store data in electronic memory every ten minutes, the station uses the 3G phone network to send the data to AIMS where it is stored in a database and then made available via the web and other systems. The data are then checked for accuracy using a number of range and historical checks, longer term summeries are then calculated along with indicies of potential thermal stress.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Parent record: Datasets relating to core GC-14, located in the Capricorn Channel at a depth of 2004 mbsl

Core GC14 (23o49' 52S 154o21' 67E) was collected from the Capricorn Channel at a depth of 2004 mbsl (metres below sea level). By investigating the properties and components of this core we are able to reveal some information about this hemi-pelagic sedimentary environment over the last glacial / interglacial cycle. Information obtained or inferred from the core include the isotopic composition of oxygen and carbon through time, an age vs. depth profile and the percentage of grainsize fractions throughout the core. X-ray Diffraction (XRD) analyses were also run on several samples from each core to determine changes in the carbonate mineralogy and terrestrial influx, which provided further palaeoclimatic information.

Tags: 51200000, Foraminifera, Foraminiferans, Foraminiferida, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sediment Composition, Oceans | Marine Sediments | Sediment Grain Size, Paleoclimate | Ocean/lake Records | Isotopes
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Whale sharks, migration and ecology movements and behaviour of Whale Sharks with use of acoustic, satellite, PAT, crittercam genetic tagging.

Whale sharks migration, ecology movements and behaviour of whale sharks were measured with the use of acoustic, satellite, PAT, crittercam genetic tagging technology.

Tags: Agriculture | Animal Science | Animal Ecology And Behavior, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Diurnal Movements, Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Migratory Rates/routes, Marine Features (Australia) | Ningaloo Marine Park, WA, Marine Features (Australia) | Pilbara Coast, WA, Whale Shark
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Slocum glider deployment in South Australia in Marion Bay (May - June 2009)

The dataset contains temperature, salinity and biological parameters like for example dissolved oxygen and turbidity data measured by a Slocum glider in the region of Marion Bay (South Australia).
The Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), manages Slocum gliders to be deployed on the continental shelf.
The variables available in this dataset are:
Temperature, salinity, conductivity, density, pressure, chromophoric dissolved oxygen matter, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence and backscatter coefficient at 660nm.

Tags: CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Profilers), Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM), Countries | Australia, Fluorometers, Glider, IMOS Node | Bluewater and Climate, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Chlorophyll, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Oxygen, Oceans | Ocean Chemistry | Suspended Solids, Oceans | Ocean Circulation | Ocean Currents, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Fluorescence, Oceans | Ocean Optics | Turbidity, Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, Oceans | Salinity/density | Conductivity, Slocum Glider, States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia, concentration_of_coloured_dissolved_organic_matter, fluorescence_in_sea_water, mass_concentration_of_oxygen_in_sea_water, sea_water_electrical_conductivity, sea_water_pressure, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, volumetric_backscatter_coefficient
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Data dictionary and schema diagram for Southern Rock Lobster (Jasus edwardsii) catch sampling database

Describes the database used for storing Southern Rock Lobster (Jasus edwardsii) biological data collected by observers on commercial boats and dedicated research trips incorporating information on sex, length, weight, damage, reproduction, bycatch, protected species interaction, location, depth, tagging and equipment type.

Tags: 28 820001, Agriculture | Agricultural Aquatic Sciences | Fisheries, Jasus edwardsii, Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Invertebrates, Schema, TASMANIA
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Busselton Jetty - Temperature logger

The operation of the Busselton Jetty is managed by a community-run, not-for-profit organisation, the Busselton Jetty Environment and Conservation Association (BJECA).
From 2001, hourly water temperatures have been collected at about 4m depth using self-recording temperature loggers which are accurate to +- 0.2 Degrees Celsius.  In 2011, at the end of the Busselton Jetty a temperature sensor was also installed and will shortly be operational by CSIRO to provide a real-time feed of the water temperature.  The sensor is located 5m below sea level at low tide

Tags: Oceans | Ocean Temperature | Water Temperature, number_of_readings, sea_water_temperature, standard_deviation, time
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
NT Waterbird Colonies Species

Quantitative ground and aerial surveys of shorebirds, and significant breeding colonies  for the Top End of the Northern Territory (NT), sourced from the Parks and Wildlife Service of the Northern Territory (PWSNT).  At time of collating this report, some gaps were apparent in the data provided. Data exist  from 1990-1999, but records from 2000-2003 are missing.

Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network