Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4379385 | Ecological Modelling | 2006 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Within the framework of the 3-year project “Mapping the habitats of the Republic of Croatia” the marine benthic habitats of the entire Croatian maritory were mapped. The supralittoral and the mediolittoral were mapped as a function of the coastal lithology and the presumed levels of human impact (both in scale of 1:100,000). The infralittoral was mapped on the basis of spatial modelling (using neural networks as a modelling tool, data about habitats collected by fieldwork as the independent variable for training and testing the model, and the digital bathymetrical model, the distance from coast, the second spectral channel of Landsat ETM+ satellite image and the sea bottom sea temperature, salinity and current magnitude, as dependent variables). The circalittoral and the bathyal were mapped by overlapping and reinterpretation of the existing spatial databases (bathymetry and lithology) within the framework of the raster-GIS.
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Authors
Tatjana Bakran-Petricioli, Oleg AntoniÄ, Dragan Bukovec, Donat Petricioli, Ivica JanekoviÄ, Josip Križan, Vladimir KuÅ¡an, Sandro DujmoviÄ,