Overview
- presents accumulated knowledge in a growing research field
- integrates 3 different disciplines in the process (remote sensing, GIS, statistics)
- introduces the environmental approach to habitat mapping of marine resources
Part of the book series: Developments in Hydrobiology (DIHY, volume 203)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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About this book
Proper designation of Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) is a highly important spatial measure in any management of fishery resources. EFH is defined as those waters and substrates necessary to fish for spawning, breeding, feeding, or growth to maturity, a definition that includes the physical, chemical and biological properties of marine areas and the associated sediment and biological assemblages that sustain fish populations throughout their full life cycle.
This book presents latest advances in EFH mapping and modelling and introduces the environmental approach to EFH identification through the combined use of latest technologies and advanced techniques, such as Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Statistics.
The contents of this book include overviews and comparisons of different approaches on species habitat modelling, methods to identify teleconnection patterns between large-scale meteo-oceanic phenomena and local environmental variation, and EFH maps for cephalopod, shrimp, hake, anchovy, sardine, and swordfish resources in the Mediterranean. The aims of this book are to provide accumulated knowledge on marine species essential habitat mapping and to be a source for further developments in the important topic of marine resource management.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Essential Fish Habitat Mapping in the Mediterranean
Editors: Vasilis D. Valavanis
Series Title: Developments in Hydrobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9141-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9140-7Published: 11 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8078-3Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9141-4Published: 27 March 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 300
Additional Information: Reprinted from Hydrobiologia, 612, 2008
Topics: Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management, Bioinformatics