Prediction of marine species distribution from presence-absence acoustic data: Comparing the fitting efficiency and the predictive capacity of conventional and novel distribution models

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 670, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 241-266

  Palialexis, A ^a,c   Georgakarakos, S ^b   Karakassis, I ^a   Lika, K ^a   Valavanis, V D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Habitat modelling; Models comparison; Spatial autocorrelation; Species distribution models; Species distribution predictions

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOCORRELATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GEOSTATISTICS; HABITAT QUALITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

EID: 79957791754     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0673-9     Document Type: Article

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