Regional-scale seagrass habitat mapping in the Wider Caribbean region using Landsat sensors: Applications to conservation and ecology
- 作者：Colette C. Wabnitz ; Serge André ; fouë ; t ; Damaris Torres-Pulliza ; Frank E. Mü ; ller-Karger ; Philip A. Kramer
- 关键词：Seagrass ; Coral reef ; Thalassia testudinum ; ETM+ ; IKONOS ; Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project ; Conservation management ; Habitat database ; Biodiversity ; Sea turtle ; Chelonia mydas
- 刊名：Remote Sensing of Environment
- 出版年：2008
- 期刊代码：79_00344257
- 类别：ear
- 出版时间：15 August 2008
- 卷：112
- 期：8
- 页码：3455-3467
- 文件大小：2591 K
摘要
Seagrass meadows occupy a large proportion of the world's coastal oceans and are some of the most productive systems on Earth. Direct and indirect human-derived impacts have led to significant seagrass declines worldwide and the alteration of services linked to their biodiversity. Effective conservation and the provision of sustainable recovery goals for ecologically significant species are limited by the absence of reliable information on seagrass extent. This is especially true for the Wider Caribbean region (WCR) where many conservation initiatives are under way, but are impaired by the lack of accurate baseline habitat maps.