Application of habitat suitability modelling to tracking data of marine animals as a means of analyzing their feeding habitats

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 212, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 504-512

  Skov, Henrik ^a   Humphreys, Elizabeth ^b   Garthe, Stefan ^c   Geitner, Kerstin ^d   Grémillet, David ^e   Hamer, Keith C ^b   Hennicke, Janos ^f   Parner, Hjalte ^d   Wanless, Sarah ^g  

^a DHI   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d Danish Fisheries Research Institute   (Denmark)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^g CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Habitat suitability model; Marine animal tracking data; Northern gannet Morus bassanus; Presence only models

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BATHYMETRY; CONSERVATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN HABITATS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HABITAT SUITABILITY MODELS; MARINE ANIMAL TRACKING DATA; MORUS BASSANUS; PRESENCE-ONLY MODELS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FEEDING GROUND; MARINE MAMMAL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLING; SEABIRD; TRACKING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BASS ROCK; EURASIA; EUROPE; FIRTH OF FORTH; NORTH SEA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; MORUS (PLANT); MORUS BASSANUS; SULIDAE;

EID: 39749167083     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.11.006     Document Type: Article

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