Developing seabed nature-type maps offshore Norway: Initial results from the MAREANO programme

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 17-28

  Dolan, Margaret F J ^a   Buhl Mortensen, Pål ^b   Thorsnes, Terje ^a   Buhl Mortensen, Lene ^b   Bellec, Valérie K ^a   Bøe, Reidulv ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Benthic; Classification; DCA; Habitat; Multibeam; Multivariate; Terrain analysis

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MAP; MAPPING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEAFLOOR; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TERRAIN;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 70349620449     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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