Modelling habitat preferences for fin whales and striped dolphins in the Pelagos Sanctuary (Western Mediterranean Sea) with physiographic and remote sensing variables

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3400-3412

  Panigada, Simone ^a,b   Zanardelli, Margherita ^a   MacKenzie, Monique ^b   Donovan, Carl ^b   Mélin, Frédéric ^c   Hammond, Philip S ^b  

^a Tethys Research Institute and IUCN Task Force on Marine Mammal Protected Areas   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conservation management; Critical habitat; Fin whale; Habitat modelling; Mediterranean Sea; MPA; Striped dolphin

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BATHYMETRY; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CHLOROPHYLL; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DETECTORS; DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES); ECOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FOOD ADDITIVES; FOOD PROCESSING; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MAMMALS; OCEAN HABITATS; PORPHYRINS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS; SURFACE WATERS; SURFACES; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

APPLIED (CO); BATHYMETRIC FEATURES; CETACEANS (WHALES); CHLOROPHYLL A CONCENTRATIONS; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREES (CART); CLASSIFICATION TREES; DATA COLLECTED; DATA SETS; ELSEVIER (CO); EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL (GAM); GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS (GEE); HABITAT PREFERENCES; HABITAT USE; LATITUDE (CO); MARINE MAMMALS; MODEL SELECTIONS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL (MD); P -VALUES; PREDICTIVE MODELING; SEA-SURFACE-TEMPERATURE (SST); SEAWIFS; STANDARD DEVIATION (STD); TEMPORAL SCALING; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AVHRR; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; DOLPHIN; GIS; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; PHYSIOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WHALE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PELAGOS SANCTUARY;

BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; STENELLA (CETACEA);

EID: 45849110639     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.11.017     Document Type: Article

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