Modelling the habitat suitability of cetaceans: Example of the sperm whale in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 648-657

  Praca, Emilie ^a,b   Gannier, Alexandre ^c   Das, Krishna ^b   Laran, Sophie ^a  

^a Ctr de Rech sur les Cetaces   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c Groupe de Recherche sur les Cetaces GREC   (France)

Author keywords

Ecological niche factor analysis; Generalized linear model; Habitat modelling; Multivariate adaptive regression splines; Northwestern Mediterranean Sea; Principal component analysis; Sperm whale

Indexed keywords

FACE RECOGNITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN HABITATS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; SPLINES; SURVEYS;

ECOLOGICAL NICHE FACTOR ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; HABITAT MODELLING; MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES; NORTHWESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPERM WHALE;

ECOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CETACEAN; DETECTION METHOD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT QUALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NICHE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WHALE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST);

CETACEA; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETERIDAE;

EID: 61549104130     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2008.11.001     Document Type: Article

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