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The application of physical surrogates as tools for benthic habitat mapping: An evaulation of techniques

Created 07/03/2026

Updated 07/03/2026

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The identification of marine habitats based on physical parameters is increasingly important for marine reserve design, allowing characterisation of habitat types over much wider areas than is possible from often patchy biological data. Marine management zones often contain a wide array of physical environments, which may not be captured in the biological sampling effort. The mismatch between biological and physical information leads to uncertainty in the application of bio-physical relationships at the broader management scale. In this study, a case study from northern Australia is used to demonstrate a methodology for defining uncertainties which result from the extrapolation of bio-physical associations across areas where detailed biological data is absent. In addition, uncertainties relating to the interpolation of physical data sets and that resulting from the cluster analysis applied to the physical data are calculated and mapped, providing marine managers with greater robustness in their analysis of habitat distributions.

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Title The application of physical surrogates as tools for benthic habitat mapping: An evaulation of techniques
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/7023f5dc-15ed-4d0c-8709-2fc08360f44c
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Reference Period 22/04/2018
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "The application of physical surrogates as tools for benthic habitat mapping: An evaulation of techniques". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/the-application-of-physical-surrogates-as-tools-for-benthic-habitat-mapping-an-evaulation-of-te7