Habitat · Australian marine parks

Kelp forest biome (modelled) in Australian marine parks

  • Jayathilake & Costello 2020 maps the modelled kelp forest biome inside 63 of the marine parks that have a page on Biohotspot.
Parks listed
63
With area mapped
63

The parks

Marine parks with a page that hold kelp forest biome (modelled), with each park's figures
ParkKelp forest biome, ha
South-west Corner (Commonwealth)442,375
Great Australian Bight (Commonwealth)420,166
Nuyts Archipelago (SA)303,624
Thorny Passage (SA)200,080
Southern Spencer Gulf (SA)193,197
Encounter (SA)173,983
Norfolk (Commonwealth)166,541
Far West Coast (SA)159,498
Great Australian Bight (SA)118,664
Ngari Capes (WA)107,358
Investigator (SA)86,187
Western Kangaroo Island (SA)86,092
Upper South East (SA)85,190
Eastern Recherche (Commonwealth)81,118
Batemans (NSW)77,380
West Coast Bays (SA)72,722
Western Kangaroo Island (Commonwealth)69,223
Western Eyre (Commonwealth)67,083
Southern Kangaroo Island (Commonwealth)62,297
Southern Kangaroo Island (SA)43,890
Huon (Commonwealth)40,115
Freycinet (Commonwealth)36,702
Sir Joseph Banks Group (SA)35,215
Lower South East (SA)32,461
Bremer (Commonwealth)31,564
Corner Inlet Marine and Coastal Park (Vic)26,397
Apollo (Commonwealth)24,424
Jervis Bay (NSW)19,256
Nooramunga Marine & Coastal Park (Vic)17,538
Boags (Commonwealth)14,694
Wilsons Promontory (Vic)14,580
Murray (Commonwealth)12,848
Tasman Fracture (Commonwealth)11,787
Twelve Apostles (Vic)7,234
The Pages (SA)6,153
Wilsons Promontory Marine Park (Vic)4,672
Point Addis (Vic)4,168
Cape Howe (Vic)4,029
Port Stephens - Great Lakes (NSW)3,877
Point Hicks (Vic)3,758
Central Channel (Tas)3,324
French Island (Vic)2,978
Port Phillip Heads (Vic)2,807
Discovery Bay (Vic)2,773
Neptune Islands (SA)2,765
Neptune Islands Group (SA)2,558
Ninety Mile Beach (Vic)2,512
Bunurong (Vic)2,013
Yallock-Bulluk Marine and Coastal Park (Vic)1,909
Unnamed (Duck Bay) (Tas)1,464
Corner Inlet (Vic)1,303
Farm Cove (Tas)1,236
Waterfall-Fortescue (Tas)1,201
Towra Point (NSW)1,186
Lower Yorke Peninsula (SA)1,034
River Derwent (Tas)622
Shallow Inlet Marine and Coastal Park (Vic)605
Geographe (Commonwealth)466
Flinders (Commonwealth)262
Macquarie Island (Tas)60.1
Macquarie Island (Commonwealth)42.3
Walpole And Nornalup Inlets (WA)2.50
Beagle (Commonwealth)0.10

“–”: not mapped for that park. Each row is the park's own figure; the rows are not added up, because some parks overlap (a state park inside Commonwealth waters, for example).

Sources and licences

  • Modelled Global Distribution of the Kelp Biome · UNEP-WCMC Ocean Data Viewer (hosting); University of Auckland / Nord University authors
    Licence: CC BY 4.0
    Jayathilake D.R.M., Costello M.J. 2020. A modelled global distribution of the kelp biome. Biological Conservation 252, 108815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108815 (v2: Jayathilake & Costello 2021, Biological Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109099)
    About this dataset

A habitat has a page when at least 3 marine parks with a page hold it. Habitat areas are the habitat map's polygons inside each park; soil carbon is the map cells that touch it. Coral reefs, seagrass and saltmarsh extent are not measured: their licences forbid derived figures or are unclear.