Modeling year-round marine mammal habitat preferences in the Southern Ocean based on passive acoustic observations

• Main Authors: van Opzeeland, Ilse, Bombosch, Annette
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Hydrurga; Antarc*; Balaenoptera musculus; Blue whale; Crabeater Seal; Fin whale; Humpback Whale; Hydrurga leptonyx; Leopard Seal; Megaptera novaeangliae; Ross Seal; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/32709/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41281

An understanding of marine mammal distribution patterns forms the basis of the design and implementation of effective management measures. Habitat modeling offers a valuable approach to combine information on species presence (or absence) with local environmental parameters to explore species-specif...