New quantitative approaches for classifying and predicting local-scale habitats in estuaries |
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Authors: | Fiona J Valesini Mathew Hourston Michelle D Wildsmith Natasha J Coen Ian C Potter |
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Institution: | Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research, Faculty of Sustainability and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Perth, Western Australia 6150, Australia |
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Abstract: | This study has developed quantitative approaches for firstly classifying local-scale nearshore habitats in an estuary and then predicting the habitat of any nearshore site in that system. Both approaches employ measurements for a suite of enduring environmental criteria that are biologically relevant and can be easily derived from readily available maps. While the approaches were developed for south-western Australian estuaries, with a focus here on the Swan and Peel-Harvey, they can easily be tailored to any system. |
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Keywords: | habitat estuaries classification systems prediction SIMPROF LINKTREE |
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