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Habitat Suitability of Oceanic Cetaceans: Comparing Presence-only and Presence/Absence Modelling
- EstadoCONCLUÍDO
- NomeMarc Fernandez Morron
- Entidade de acolhimentoCIRN – Centro de Investigação de Recursos Naturais
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Objectivo
This project can be focused in two main goals or research questions. The first one intends to create a methodology to be used later in other similar areas (remote islands or archipelagos). Secondly this study also wants to provide information about the distribution of cetaceans in the Azores.
Here I resume the main objectives of the research:
- Evaluate model performance using opportunistic and non-opportunistic marine mammal sighting data from the same study area
- Determine the influence of different eco-geographical variables in cetaceans distribution
- Produce habitat suitability maps for cetaceans off the Azores Archipelago
- Provide reliable models with useful conservation and management implications
- Produce a low-cost methodology to study cetaceans in remote or poorly studied areas.
- Using the maps produced suggest recommendations for important areas of conservation for cetaceans in the Azores.
