Quantifying wave exposure in shallow temperate reef systems: Applicability of fetch models for predicting algal biodiversity

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 417, Issue , 2010, Pages 83-95

  Hill, Nicole A ^a   Pepper, Austen R ^a,d   Puotinen, Marji L ^b,e   Hughes, Michael G ^c,f   Edgar, Graham J ^a   Barrett, Neville S ^a   Stuart Smith, Rick D ^a   Leaper, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c Marine and Coastal Environment Group   (Australia)

^d State Emergency Service   (Australia)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cartographic fetch modelling; Macro algae; Predictive models; Wave exposure index

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARTOGRAPHY; COAST; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GIS; MACROALGA; NUMERICAL MODEL; REEF; SHALLOW WATER; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WAVE MODELING;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

ALGAE;

EID: 78149449090     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08815     Document Type: Article

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