Data integration for conservation: Leveraging multiple data types to advance ecological assessments and habitat modeling for marine megavertebrates using OBIS-SEAMAP

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 20, Issue , 2014, Pages 13-26

  Fujioka, Ei ^a   Kot, Connie Y ^a   Wallace, Bryan P ^a,b   Best, Benjamin D ^a   Moxley, Jerry ^a   Cleary, Jesse ^a   Donnelly, Ben ^a   Halpin, Patrick N ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Oceanic Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeographic database; Line transect sighting; Photo identification; Satellite telemetry; Sea turtle nesting; Spatio temporal ecological assessments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894268646     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.01.003     Document Type: Article

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