Using patterns of reef fish assemblages to refine a habitat classification system for marine parks in NSW, Australia

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-92

  Malcolm, Hamish A ^a,b   Smith, Stephen D A ^b   Jordan, Alan ^c  

^a New South Wales Government Marine Parks Authority   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity assessment; Marine protected area; Representation; Spatial pattern; Surrogate; Tropical temperate overlap

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MARINE PARK; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REEF; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURROGATE METHOD;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SOLITARY ISLANDS MARINE PARK;

EID: 73249114733     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.1055     Document Type: Article

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