| Title | A benthic habitat template for Pacific Canada's continental shelf |
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| Author | Gregr, E J; Gryba, R; Li, M Z ; Alidina, H; Kostylev, V; Hannah, C G |
| Source | Canadian Technical Report of Hydrography and Ocean Sciences vol. 312, 2016.  Open Access |
| Links | Online - En
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| Year | 2016 |
| Alt Series | Natural Resources Canada, Contribution Series 20170085 |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | British Columbia; Offshore region |
| NTS | 92B; 92C; 92E; 92F; 92G; 92J; 92K; 92L; 92M; 92N; 92O; 93B; 93C; 93D; 93E; 93F; 93G; 93I; 93K; 93L; 93M; 93N; 93O; 102; 103 |
| Lat/Long WENS | -134.0000 -122.0000 56.0000 48.0000 |
| Subjects | marine geology; marine environments; marine ecology; regional planning; planning; coastal environment; coastal studies; coastal management; grain size analysis |
| Illustrations | formulae; tables; location maps; geological sketch maps; graphs; bar graphs |
| Program | Offshore Geoscience |
| Released | 2016 01 01 |
| Abstract | Technical reports contain scientific and technical information of a type that represents a contribution to existing knowledge but which is not normally found in the primary literature. The subject
matter is generally related to programs and interests of the Oceans and Science sectors of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
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report is abstracted in the data base Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts.
Technical reports are produced regionally but are numbered nationally. Requests for individual reports will be filled by the issuing establishment listed on the front
cover and title page.
Regional and headquarters establishments of Ocean Science and Surveys ceased publication of their various report series as of December 1981. A complete listing of these publications and the last number issued under each title
are published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Volume 38: Index to Publications 1981. The current series began with Report Number 1 in January 1982. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
Classifications of the marine environment are essential to inform marine spatial planning strategies such as protected area designation, and can support
assessments of the cumulative impacts of human activities and the development of species-habitat associations. The benthic habitat template developed here for the shelf waters (30 - 500 m) of Canada¿s Pacific coast is one such classification. We
found the habitat template correlated better with benthic diversity than linear geographic distance, corroborating earlier findings from Atlantic Canada. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 301663 |
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