Predictive habitat models for managing marine areas: Spatial and temporal distribution of marine mammals within the Pelagos Sanctuary (Northwestern Mediterranean sea)

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 67, Issue , 2012, Pages 63-74

  Azzellino, A ^a,b   Panigada, S ^b   Lanfredi, C ^a,b   Zanardelli, M ^b   Airoldi, S ^b   Notarbartolo di Sciara, G ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Tethys Research Institute and IUCN Task Force on Marine Mammal Protected Areas   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS; COVARIATES; HABITAT MODEL; HABITAT USE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MARINE AREAS; MARINE MAMMALS; NORTHWESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PREDICTIVE MODELS; PRESENCE/ABSENCE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; SPERM WHALES; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

CONSERVATION; DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES); ECOSYSTEMS; MAMMALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

CONSERVATION STATUS; DOLPHIN; HABITAT USE; MARINE PARK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; WHALE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PELAGOS SANCTUARY;

BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; CETACEA; DELPHINIDAE; GLOBICEPHALA MELAS; MAMMALIA; PHYSETERIDAE; STENELLA (CETACEA); TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS; ZIPHIIDAE;

EID: 84863765506     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2012.05.024     Document Type: Article

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