Habitat as a surrogate measure of reef fish diversity in the zoning of the Lord Howe Island Marine Park, Australia

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 353, Issue , 2008, Pages 265-273

  Lindsay, Malcolm J ^a   Patterson, Heather M ^a,b   Swearer, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Australian Fisheries Management Authority   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diversity surrogates; Fish diversity; Marine conservation; Marine protected areas; Marine reserves; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HABITAT TYPE; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE PARK; PRECISION; REEF; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; LORD HOWE ISLAND; NEW SOUTH WALES; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 39349100541     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07155     Document Type: Article

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