Fish distribution predictions from different points of view: Comparing associative neural networks, geostatistics and regression models

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 670, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 165-188

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Habitat modelling; Models comparison; Species distribution predictions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; FISHERY MODELING; GEOSTATISTICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79957851155     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0676-6     Document Type: Article

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