Marine Biodiversity Values (MBV)

A spatial assessment of Victoria’s listed and key marine and coastal biodiversity features. The objective of this work is to support planning decisions across Victoria’s marine and coastal environment by synthesising currently available species information and providing a first iteration MBV map. This report presents the methods that underpin Victoria’s MBV map, detailing the input data sources for each species represented in the map as well as the spatial prioritisation approach employed. The analysis ranks all locations across Victoria’s marine environment for their ability to represent key marine and coastal biodiversity features. Biodiversity features is a term widely used in conservation biology (Margules and Pressey, 2000) and adopted in this report to represent important biodiversity values and alignment with Marxan and Zonation, two of the most widely used conservation-planning decision-support tools (Moilanen et al., 2009).

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Published (Metadata Record) 17/04/2026
Last updated 17/04/2026
Organisation Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
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License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Full metadata URL https://metashare.maps.vic.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/api/records/fb48e5ac-d9bc-4426-a0f3-be4ed6daf9be/formatters/cip-pdf?root=export&output=pdf
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