Table 4.
Spatial data used to quantify environmental conditions and determine model boundaries.
| Data | Type | Models | Data source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intertidal/subtidal | Categorical; intertidal, subtidal | All | gbr30 (30 m pixel resolution) raster45; ITEM version 2.046,47; tidal regions of reefs or shoals within Queensland maritime waters © State of Queensland (Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy) 2019 |
| Depth | Numeric; metres below mean sea level | Subtidal only | gbr30 (30 m pixel resolution) raster45 |
| Relative tidal exposure | Categorical; bands 1–9 | Intertidal only | Intertidal Extent Model (ITEM version 2.0)46,47 |
| Water type | Categorical; estuary, coast, reef | All | Queensland coastal waterways geomorphic habitat mapping estuary boundary74. Marine Water Bodies definitions (version 2_4; Data courtesy of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority) |
| Sediment | Numeric; proportion mud | Coast and Reef | eReefs 1 km grid hydrodynamic model: https://research.csiro.au/ereefs/models/model-outputs/access-to-raw-model-output/49,51 |
| Sediment | Categorical; dominant sediment | Estuary | Great Barrier Reef data synthesis44 |
| Benthic geomorphology | Categorical; geomorphic (benthic) features | Coast and Reef | Geomorphic Features of the Australian Margin75 |
| Benthic light | Numeric; benthic photosynthetically active radiation (PARb) above the seagrass canopy, mol photons m−2 day−1 | Coast and Reef | “EpiPAR_sg” variable from eReefs 1 km grid biogeochemical and optical model (v924): http://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/catalog/fx3/gbr1_bgc_924/catalog.html49,50 |
| Water temperature | Numeric (°C) | Coast and Reef | eReefs 1 km grid hydrodynamic model: https://data.aims.ereefs.org.au/thredds/fileServer/derived-download/gbr1_2.0/all-one/all-one.nc48 |
| Mean current speed | Numeric (ms−1) | Coast and Reef | eReefs 1 km grid hydrodynamic model: https://data.aims.ereefs.org.au/thredds/fileServer/derived-download/gbr1_2.0/all-one/all-one.nc48 |
| Salinity | Numeric; Practical Salinity Unit (PSU) | Coast and Reef | eReefs 1 km grid hydrodynamic model: https://data.aims.ereefs.org.au/thredds/fileServer/derived-download/gbr1_2.0/all-one/all-one.nc48 |
| Wind speed | Numeric (ms−1) | Coast and Reef | eReefs 1 km grid hydrodynamic model: https://data.aims.ereefs.org.au/thredds/fileServer/derived-download/gbr1_2.0/all-one/all-one.nc48 |
| Latitude | Numeric | Estuary | ArcGIS |