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Vasquez, Mickael; Mata Chacon, D.; Tempera, Fernando; O'Keeffe, Eimear; Galparsoro, Ibon; Sanz Alonso, J. L.; Goncalves, Jorge M. S.; Bentes, Luis; Amorim, Patricia; Henriques, Victor; Mcgrath, Fergal; Monteiro, Pedro; Mendes, Beatriz; Freitas, Rosa; Martins, Roberto; Populus, Jacques. |
If marine management policies and actions are to achieve long-term sustainable use and management of the marine environment and its resources, they need to be informed by data giving the spatial distribution of seafloor habitats over large areas. Broad-scale seafloor habitat mapping is an approach which has the benefit of producing maps covering large extents at a reasonable cost. This approach was first investigated by Roff et al. (2003), who, acknowledging that benthic communities are strongly influenced by the physical characteristics of the seafloor, proposed overlaying mapped physical variables using a Geographic Information System (GIS) to produce an integrated map of the physical characteristics of the seafloor. In Europe the method was adapted to... |
Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Habitat Mapping; EUNIS; Exposure; Biological Zones; Substrate. |
Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00216/32744/31149.pdf |
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