Environmental models for predicting oceanic dolphin habitat in the Northeast Atlantic

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 760-770

  Hastie, Gordon D ^a,c   Swift, René J ^a   Slesser, George ^b   Thompson, Paul M ^a   Turrell, William R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ambient noise; Cetacean; Diurnal; General additive model; Month; passive acoustic; Sea surface temperature; Surface fluorescence; Surface salinity; Water depth

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; DOLPHIN; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT SELECTION; HYDROGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

CETACEA; CORYPHAENIDAE;

EID: 19744363940     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icesjms.2005.02.004     Document Type: Article

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