Download AEBR 235 Quantifying benthic biodiversity: using seafloor image data to build single-taxon and community distribution models for Chatham Rise, New Zealand

We used a new dataset of benthic invertebrate occurrence developed from quantitative seabed photographic surveys to build improved predictive models of taxon and community distributions on Chatham Rise. These predictions are the first abundance-based models of benthic distributions in the region and are the best-informed representations of seabed distributions on Chatham Rise to date, providing a resource that will have applications in marine environmental management and ecosystem research.