Identifying hotspots for biodiversity management using rank abundance distributions

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-32

  Dunstan, Piers K ^a   Bax, Nicholas J ^a   Foster, Scott D ^a   Williams, Alan ^a   Althaus, Franziska ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Hotspot; Prediction; Rank abundance distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEMERSAL FISH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HOT SPOT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INVERTEBRATE; OCEANOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RARE SPECIES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVEY;

AUSTRALIA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 83055181290     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00838.x     Document Type: Article

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