Describing and predicting the spatial distribution of benthic biodiversity in the sub-Antarctic and Antarctic

• Main Author: Hibberd, T
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: benthic invertebrates; deep-sea; surrogacy; modelling; Heard Island; Antarctica; MPA; Antarctic; Casey Station; East Antarctica; Gam; George V Land; Gunnerus Ridge; Prydz Bay; Southern Ocean; Adelie Land; Antarc*; Enderby Land; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23442/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23442/1/Hibberd_whole_thesis.pdf

The global imperative to sustainably manage deep-sea bottom fisheries and mitigate impacts to benthic habitats is constrained by the limited existing biological data available to inform decisionmaking. Physical surrogacy, where benthic biodiversity is characterised based on its relationship with env...