Diversity of river life: bioregionalisation, conservationpriorities and predictive models of aquatic biodiversity

J. Hughes and B. Cook
Models will be developed relating the patterns of aquatic biodiversity to environmental drivers such as hydrology, climate, landform, riparian and aquatic habitat. This will help with predicting the effects of development scenarios in river catchments on biodiversity. Networks of areas with high biodiversity will be identified for conservation priority. This project will cover as many catchments as possible in northern Australia
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