Seascapes for the Australian Margin and Adjacent Seabed  

Authors / CoAuthors

Heap, A.D. | Anderson, T. | Falkner, I. | Przeslawski, R. | Whiteway, T.

Abstract

Seascapes describing a layer of ecologically meaningful biophysical variable that spatially represent potential seabed habitats have been derived for the Australian margin and adjacent seabed in a new analysis of existing biophysical data. A total of 13 seascapes were derived for the continental shelf and nine seascapes for regions beyond the continental shelf using the unsupervised ISOCLASS classification in the software package ERMapper. The ecological significance of the seascapes is assessed at the national, regional and local scale using existing biological data. Options and avenues for future development are also described.

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dataset

eCat Id

69242

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Keywords

• GA PublicationRecord

( Theme )

• continental margins

( Theme )

• marine zone

( Theme )

• resource management

( Theme )

• habitat

( Theme )

• marine

• AU-EEZ

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

• Earth Sciences

• Published_External

Publication Date

2009-01-01T00:00:00

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geoscientificInformation

Series Information

Record 2011/006

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Extents

[-50, -9, 110, 170]

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Spatial Resolution

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