Spatial patterns of seaweed distribution in Malaysia using GIS
The objective of this article is to represent spatial patterns of seaweed distribution in Malaysia.Seaweeds have been collected since 1984 along coastlines of 4675 km of peninsular Malaysia,Sabah,and Sarawak.However,there is no seaweed database and they cannot be displayed in a geographic view.Therefore,a database with 805 georeferenced observations was setup and GIS is used to analyze seaweed diversity based on this database.The highest number of observations is 94 which occur along east coastline of peninsular Malaysia.The highest number of species richness is 82 which are also along east coastline of peninsular Malaysia.Rhodophyta has the highest species richness while Chlorophyta has the least species richness.
Seaweed Geographic distribution GIS Species richness
Du Hai Lian Jillian Ooi Lean Sim Rosmadi Fauzi Phang Siew Moi
Department of Geography,University of Malaya,50603 Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia School of Earth & Geographical Sciences,University of Western Australia,35 Stirling Highway Crawley Institute of Biological Sciences,University of Malaya,50603 Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
国际会议
第16届国际地理信息科学与技术大会(16th International Conference on GeoInformatics and the Joint Conference)
广州
英文
2008-06-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）