Title

Victorian Marine Biogeographical Settings 

Alternate title

MARINE_BIOUNITS 

Supplemental Information

Related Documents: None 

Status

Completed  

Code

4283 

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed  

Title

ESRI File Geodatabase GDA94, decimal degrees based on GRS80 GCS_GDA_1994 10 

Topic category

• Society
• Oceans

Use limitation

General 

Classification

Unclassified  

Statement

Dataset Source: CBICs or the Combined Biotope Classication Scheme is a novel unifed scheme for marine ecological classification and provides a means for describing, mapping and monitoring biological communities, abiotic structural habitat components and ecosystem types. CBICs has directly adopted the three levels of the Marine Ecoregions of the World (MEOW) for coastal and shelf areas. CBICs introduces a new bioregional division termed biounit that delineate areas within bioregions that have distinctive ecophysical properties. Dataset Originality: Derived 

Classification

Unclassified  

Attribute Quality

Comments

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

Comments

Spatial accuracy is based on the adminstrative units or source boundaries usd to depict boundaries, which includes a nominal buffer. 

Conceptual Consistency

Comments

Validation for consistency and completeness for all items. 

Missing Data

Comments

complete Completeness Verification: complete 

Excess Data

Comments

complete