Comparing large-scale bioregions and fine-scale community-level biodiversity predictions from subtidal rocky reefs across south-eastern Australia

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 851-860

  Leaper, Rebecca ^a   Dunstan, Piers K ^b   Foster, Scott D ^b   Barrett, Neville J ^a   Edgar, Graham J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bioregion; Community; Conservation planning; Evenness; Marine; Rank abundance distributions; Species richness; Subtidal rocky reefs

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEMERSAL FISH; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MARINE PARK; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; REEF; REGIONALIZATION; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SURROGATE METHOD;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

PISCES;

EID: 84864026095     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02155.x     Document Type: Article

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