Benthic Regionalization

This layer is a circumpolar, hierarchical classification of benthic ecoregions, bathomes and environmental types. Ecoregions are defined according to available data on biogeographic patterns and environmental drivers on dispersal. Bathomes are identified according to depth strata defined by species distributions. Environmental types are uniquely classified according to the geomorphic features found within the bathomes in each ecoregion.

Douglass LL, Turner J, Grantham HS, Kaiser S, Constable A, Nicoll R, Raymond B, Post A, Brandt A, Beaver D (2014) A hierarchical classification of benthic biodiversity and assessment of protected areas in the Southern Ocean. PLoS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100551
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SOBC

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1 May 2017
Imported SHP and reprojected to EPSG:3031

Author's Notes: The benthic regionalisation is hierarchical, with ecoregions being the broadest spatial classification, bathomes next finest (nested within ecoregions), and environmental types the finest spatial classification.

Editor
Biology
Huw Griffiths
hjg@bas.ac.uk

Author
Ben Raymond
Ben.Raymond@aad.gov.au