Classification of Fiordland marine environments and their use as surrogates measures of biodiversity
Published:
2005
This report documents a finer resolution terrestrial, freshwater and marine environment classification developed for Fiordland. The results of the statistical modelling were used to develop a multivariate classification ofphysical environmental types.
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Table of contents
Part one: pages 1-14 (PDF, 580K)
- Disclaimer
- Introduction
- Part one: Statistical relationships between biological response variables and physical environmental factors and ground-truthing of predictive modelling
- Data sources and methodology
- Modelling results
Part two: pages 15-31 (PDF, 492K)
- Part one continued
- Ground truthing results
- Discussion
- Part two: Multivariate classification of coastal environment types and test of classification groupings using biological data
- Methodology and approach
Part three: pages 32-33 (PDF, 789K)
Part four: pages 34-40 (PDF, 145K)
- Part two continued
- Discussion
- General conclusions and recommendations
- References
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Prepared by Franz Smith in collaboration with Steve Wing and Hamish Bowman.
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