Distribution of benthic macrofaunal communities in the western Baltic Sea with regard to near-bottom environmental parameters. 2. Modelling and prediction

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 57-70

  Gogina, Mayya ^a   Glockzin, Michael ^a   Zettler, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

AIC; Baltic Sea; Benthic macrofauna; Between 11.55 to 12.55 E and 54.09 to 54.96 N; Ecological niche modelling; Environmental factors; Logistic regression; Mecklenburg Bight; Multimodel inference; Statistical modelling

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; BENTHIC MACROFAUNA; ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELLING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MULTI-MODEL INFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODELLING;

LOGISTICS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ECOLOGY;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BATHYAL ZONE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MACROBENTHOS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GERMANY; MECKLENBURG BIGHT;

ARCTICA ISLANDICA; HEDISTE DIVERSICOLOR; PYGOSPIO ELEGANS; SCOLOPLOS ARMIGER; TUBIFICOIDES BENEDII;

EID: 73449117467     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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