Applications and future challenges in marine species distribution modeling

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 92-100

  Dambach, Johannes ^a   Rödder, Dennis ^a,b  

^a ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glacial; Great white shark; Marine biodiversity; Spatially explicit models

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PHENOLOGY; SHARK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CARCHARODON CARCHARIAS; CHONDRICHTHYES;

EID: 78751698907     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.1160     Document Type: Article

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