Limitations of habitats as biodiversity surrogates for conservation planning in estuaries

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 3477-3492

  Shokri, Mohammad Reza ^a,b   Gladstone, William ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Environmental diversity; Estuary; Irreplaceability; Macroinvertebrates; Reserve selection; Species richness

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DIVERSITIES; IRREPLACEABILITY; MACROINVERTEBRATES; RESERVE SELECTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEX NETWORKS; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTUARIES; FORESTRY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEXITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ESTUARY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PROTECTED AREA; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BIOTA; DENSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESTUARY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; METHODOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876311803     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2804-9     Document Type: Article

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