When the species is also a habitat: Comparing the predictively modelled distributions of Lophelia pertusa and the reef habitat it forms

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2656-2665

  Howell, Kerry L ^a   Holt, Rebecca ^a   Endrino, Inés Pulido ^a   Stewart, Heather ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biotopes; Deep sea; Habitat mapping; Lophelia pertusa; Marine protected area; Maxent

Indexed keywords

BIOTOPE; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DEEP SEA; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MAPPING; MARINE PARK; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; REEF; SLOPE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; THRESHOLD; VIDEOGRAPHY; VULNERABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

LOPHELIA PERTUSA;

EID: 81155162576     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.07.025     Document Type: Article

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