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of operational food-web indicators that can be used to quantify the emergent properties of food webs in marine ecosystems . The context for this work was the EU’s MSFD need to delineate Good Environmental Status ...
significantly lower in mud, sand and macro-algal habitats , with no differences recorded for fish diversity. Soft sediment grab samples indicated that mud habitats had the highest benthic diversity, with Shannon ...
are potentially more problematic than others, the classification-based errors arising from a bias towards a habitat would potentially be the most serious. Thus, further work is required to investigate ...
of EFH is therefore organism-centered rather than anthropocentrically defined, and integrates both pelagic and benthic habitats . Diverse services are provided by the marine pelagic habitat (or combined ...
in knowledge of biogeographic patterns and habitat heterogeneity within ecosystems [4, 5]. Australian Commonwealth waters are among the largest marine jurisdictions in the world and support significant ...
of potential importance for biodiversity and ecosystems [24, 45, 46]. These benthic and pelagic regionalizations have helped guide CCAMLR towards identifying priority areas to be incorporated ...
for inclusion of ecosystem information—in this case, “oceanographic and habitat data.” Second, it urges quantitative integration of these factors into the stock assessment model, but ultimately leaves ...
areas in Europe (Eigaard et al., 2017) and is considered to be a particularly strong anthropogenic disturbance to benthic communities and habitats (Collie, 2000; Jennings et al., 2001). Nevertheless ...
habitat mapping as well as for enhancing the working practices of mappers using habitat classification. It is hoped that implementation of these recommendations will lead to greater certainty and usage ...
and production of indicator -based ecosystem report cards as a current, working example of adapting ecosystem information to management needs. In this particular case, report cards serve a need to succinctly ...
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