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ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil Advance Access originally published online on August 11, 2009
ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 2009 66(10):2086-2088; doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsp212
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© 2009 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. Published by Oxford Journals. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Remarks on "Comment on: Williams et al. (2009) Australia's deep-water reserve network: implications of false homogeneity for classifying abiotic surrogates of biodiversity, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 214–224" by Peter T. Harris, Andrew D. Heap, Tara J. Anderson, and Brendan Brooke

Alan Williams, Nicholas J. Bax and Rudy J. Kloser

CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship, Marine Laboratories, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia

Correspondence to A. Williams: tel: +61 3 6232 5222; fax: +61 3 6232 5000; e-mail: alan.williams{at}csiro.au

Williams, A., Bax, N. J., and Kloser, R. J. 2009. Remarks on "Comment on: Williams et al. (2009) Australia's deep-water reserve network: implications of false homogeneity for classifying abiotic surrogates of biodiversity, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 214–224" by Peter T. Harris, Andrew D. Heap, Tara J. Anderson, and Brendan Brooke. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 2086–2088.

Commitment by many nations at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development to complete national networks of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) by 2012 focused attention on MPA design and implementation, especially for the deep waters that make up the majority of many national EZs. Further, there is a focus on conservation in the High Seas through the Convention on Biological Biodiversity and the FAO, e.g. for seamounts and other vulnerable benthic habitats. Any manuscript that raises basic issues on one identified area for conservation is therefore a prospectively useful addition to the international debate. The Comment by Harris et al. (2009) on a paper authored by myself and colleagues (Williams et al., 2009) is a potentially useful contribution. The authors provide data, examples, and insights into aspects of the design and planning process for Australia's SE network of reserves. Here, we address the main question of how geological descriptions can be used or modified to provide the most information on marine biodiversity patterns for use in conservation planning—in the context of the major points raised by Harris et al. (2009).

Keywords: Australia, benthic habitats, Marine Protected Areas, surrogates

Received 24 May 2009; accepted 23 June 2009; advance access publication 11 August 2009.


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