Video: Geomorphology - Carnarvon Shelf
Flythrough movie showing the bathymetry of Carnarvon shelf, highlighting benthic habitats at Point Cloates. The ba...
The Scalloped Hammerhead Shark, Sphyrna lewini. Image: CSIRO
Many species of sharks and rays are slow-growing, long-lived, and have low rates of reproduct...
Many animals and plants live attached to the seabed where they form benthic habitats used by a diversity of other species.
These habitats can be affected by ...
The Australian Government has identified 58 Commonwealth Marine Reserves (CMRs) and 54 Key Ecological Features (KEFs) in Australia’s Commonwealth marine are...
IMAGE: Key Ecological Features represent areas of significant biodiversity or ecological functioning and integrity within Commonwealth waters.
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Approximate locations of key ecological features in commonwealth waters.
IMAGE: The KEF systems indicated here share a range of common indicators.
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IMAGE: Acoustic and satellite tagging were used to trace White Shark movement patterns, identify habitats, examine growth rates and explore population stru...
IMAGE: A seastar among deepwater corals at 1115m water depth in the Huon CMR, part of the South-east Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network. Image: CSIRO.
Marine...
The Flinders Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) east of Tasmania’s Cape Barren Island stretches some 600 kilometres and covers an area of 27,000 km2.
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