A hierarchical framework for classifying seabed biodiversity with application to planning and managing Australia's marine biological resources

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1675-1686

  Last, Peter R ^a   Lyne, Vincent D ^a   Williams, Alan ^a   Davies, Campbell R ^a   Butler, Alan J ^a   Yearsley, Gordon K ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bathomes; Biodiversity; Bioregions; Biotopes; Conservation planning; Ecosystem based management (EBM); Hierarchical classification; Provinces; Surrogates

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENDEMISM; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE RESOURCE; REGIONAL PLANNING; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; SEAFLOOR; SURROGATE METHOD; TAXONOMY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77954816488     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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