EarthRef.org Digital Archive (ERDA) -- Physical characterisation and biological classification of New Zealand seamounts

Description
In this discussion item for the First SBN Workshop Adele Pile highlights recent research that performed a statistical analyses to classify all seamounts in the New Zealand's EEC and its proximity. In this analysis 475 seamounts were included that gave 12 groupings based on group average hierarchical clustering using an euclidean distance metric. The most important parameters turn out to be the variable depth at the seamount base, depth at peak, elevation and distance to continental shelf.

Keywords
geographic distribution, environment association, continental slope areas, deep sea seamounts, phytoplankton biomass

Project -- Meetings and Workshops -- SBN Workshops
The goal of the Seamount Biogeosciences Network (SBN) is to bring together all the diverse science disciplines involved in seamount research, to communicate about and discuss seamount science, and to explore innovative ways to network amongst the diverse communities working on seamounts.