Seabed Exposure and Ecological Disturbance on Australia's Continental Shelf: Potential Surrogates for Marine Biodiversity
- ISBN-10
- 1921781548
- ISBN-13
- 9781921781544
- Category
- Biodiversity conservation
- Pages
- 55
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Authors
- Peter Townsend Harris, Michael Glen Hughes, Brendan Brooke
Description
In this report we have used models of seabed sediment mobilisation to examine IDH [intermediate disturbance hypothesis] for Australia's continental shelf environment. Although other disturbance processes may occur (eg. biological, temperature, salinity, anthropogenic, etc.) our study addresses only the physical disturbance of the seabed by waves and currents. Our study has shown that it is feasible to model the frequency and magnitude of seabed disturbance in relation to the dominant energy source (wave-dominated shelf, tide-dominated shelf or tropical cyclone dominated shelf). In this report we have used models of seabed sediment mobilisation to examine IDH for Australia's continental shelf environment. --Executive summary.
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