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and include bioregions, water depth, seafloor features and key ecological features. They are identified below.
More information on these features can be found in the East marine bioregional plan: bioregional profile (2009), and the conservation values atlas on the Department's website.
Bioregions
Bioregions are identified in the Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA) as large areas of ocean with broadly similar characteristics that have been classified by scientists based on the distribution of fish and other marine species, seafloor types and ocean conditions. The Coral Sea Marine Park represents six bioregions: Cape Province, Central Eastern Transition, Kenn Province, Kenn Transition, Northeast Province, and Northeast Transition (Figure S3.1).
Depth ranges
The Coral Sea Marine Park represents depths from shallow waters of less than 15 m to abyssal waters of approximately 6000 m. Marine biological communities change with depth, and similar depth ranges in different bioregions support different groups of species. The range of ocean depths in each bioregion, represented as bathomes in Figure S3.2, have been included in the Marine Park to ensure that examples of marine biodiversity are represented.
Seafloor features
The landscape-scale physical structure of the seafloor is important in determining where habitats or species occur. There is strong scientific evidence that different types of seafloor features provide different habitats and associated marine species and communities. The seafloor of the Coral Sea Marine Park comprises 16 seafloor features: abyssal plain/deep ocean floor, apron/fan, basin, canyon, continental rise, deep/hole/valley, knoll/abyssal hills/hills/mountain/peak, pinnacle, plateau, reef, ridge, saddle, seamount/guyot, slope, terrace, and trench/trough (Figure S3.3).
Key ecological features
Key ecological features were identified through the marine bioregional planning program as areas or features that support distinct or important ecological communities at a regional scale. The Coral Sea Marine Park represents three key ecological features: reefs, cays and herbivorous fish of the Marion Plateau; reefs, cays and herbivorous fish of the Queensland Plateau; and the Tasmantid Seamount Chain (Figure S3.4).
Figure S3.1 Bioregions represented in the Coral Sea Marine Park
Map showing the bathomes represented in marine parks of the North-west Network.Figure S3.2 Bathomes indicating depth ranges represented in the Coral Sea Marine ParkFigure S3.3 Seafloor features represented in the Coral Sea Marine Park
Figure S3.4 Key ecological features represented in the Coral Sea Marine Park
Schedule 4 Coral Sea Marine Park and zone boundary descriptions
In this Schedule:
Fisheries Jurisdiction Line means the line described in annex 8 of the Torres Strait Treaty.
Maritime boundary (French Republic) Agreement means the Agreement on Maritime Delimitation between the Government of Australia and the Government of the French Republic, done at Melbourne on 4 January 1982. The Agreement is in Australian Treaty Series 1983 No. 3 ([1983] ATS 3) and could in 2013