Diversity and distribution of benthic macrofauna in the Baltic Sea. Data inventory and its use for species distribution modelling and prediction

Journal of Sea Research

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 313-321

  Gogina, Mayya ^a   Zettler, Michael L ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Ecological Modelling; Environmental Factors; Habitat Suitability Mapping; Large scale Statistical Modelling; Logistic Regression; Zoobenthos Distribution

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT SELECTION; MACROBENTHOS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; ORGANIC MATTER; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; SUBSTRATE; WATER DEPTH; WATER TEMPERATURE; ZOOBENTHOS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77955013119     PISSN: 13851101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seares.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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