Harbour porpoise habitat preferences: Robust spatio-temporal inferences from opportunistic data

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 448, Issue , 2012, Pages 155-170

  Isojunno, Saana ^a   Matthiopoulos, Jason ^a   Evans, Peter G H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b Wellington Place   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Generalized additive models; Habitat model; Model selection; Multi model inference; Non linear interactions; Phocoena phocoena; Tidal environments; Wales

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENERALIST; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HARBOR; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PORPOISE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIDAL CYCLE;

UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

ANIMALIA; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE;

EID: 84857614734     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09415     Document Type: Article

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