Evaluating demersal fish richness as a surrogate for epibenthic richness in management and conservation

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 901-912

  Hewitt, Judi E ^a   Wang, Dong ^a   Francis, Malcolm ^a   Lundquist, Carolyn ^a   Duffy, Clinton ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Marine; Predictive models; Resolution; Scale; Spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEMERSAL FISH; DIVERSITY INDEX; HETEROGENEITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEAFLOOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCK ASSESSMENT; UNDERPINNING; VIDEOGRAPHY;

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EID: 84937724137     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12336     Document Type: Article

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