Consensus forecasting of intertidal seagrass habitat in the Wadden Sea

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1800-1813

  Folmer, Eelke O ^a   van Beusekom, Justus E E ^b   Dolch, Tobias ^c   Gräwe, Ulf ^d   van Katwijk, Marieke M ^e   Kolbe, Kerstin ^f   Philippart, Catharina J M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f Coastal Defence and Nature Conservation Agency ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Boyce index; ensemble forecasting; habitat distribution model; habitat management; machine learning; model transferability; seagrass; Wadden Sea; Zostera marina; Zostera noltii

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING METHOD; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; INDEX METHOD; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MACHINE LEARNING; SEAGRASS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

ZOSTERA MARINA; ZOSTERA NOLTII;

EID: 84965079505     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12681     Document Type: Article

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