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The Biogeography of the Australian North West Shelf provides the first assembly of existing information of the North West Shelf in terms of geological, oceanographic and climatological history and current understanding of such issues as biodiversity, connectivity, larval dispersal and speciation in the sea that determine the distribution patterns of its invertebrate fauna. It is intended as a source of information and ideas on the biota of the shelf and its evolutionary origins and affinities and the environmental drivers of species' ecology and distribution and ecosystem function.>

1. Introduction -- 2. The contemporary physical environment -- 3. Intertidal rocky shores -- 4. Coral reefs of the north west shelf -- 5. Mangrove habitat and associated fauna -- 6. Habitats and biotic assemblages of intertidal sandy and muddy shores -- 7. Benthic shelf and slope habitats -- 8. Patterns of life and the processes that produce them -- 9. An overview of the historical biogeography of the north west shelf.

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