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The world's oceans have been widely regarded as the source of inexhaustible abundance and the need to conserve the Earth's largest biotic realm has only recently been recognised. Consequently, studies of marine conservation have lagged behind comparable studies of terrestrial biomes. Compiling inventories, monitoring ecological communities, detecting and monitoring rare and threatened species, devising biogeographic classification schemes, declaring protected areas (reserves) and reporting to government on the state of the environment are strategies thought effective for the conservation of biodiversity. There is no comprehensive inventory of Australian marine macroalgae, although 'The Australian Marine Algal Name Index' stores data on species names and species distribution patterns for the continent. No Australian marine macroalgal species is currently included on any 'Rare and Threatened' species list, but this reflects only our inability to detect these species. Biogeographic classification schemes have been devised for Australian coastal waters, but little is known of the macroalgae in many of the bio-regions identified. Many marine protected areas (MPAs) have been declared in

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Author

J. A. Phillips

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG; Walter de Gruyter GmbH (ISSN 0006-8055)

Published

1998

Language

EN

Field

Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)