Species Distribution Modelling of Corals and Sponges in the Eastern Arctic for Use in the Identification of Significant Benthic Areas

• Main Author: Lirette, Camille
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Mendeley 2019
• Subjects: Benthic Ecology; Modelling; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Hudson Strait; Baffin; Davis Strait; northern shrimp
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17632/mcb726kcbx.1; https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/mcb726kcbx/1

Species distribution modelling using a random forest (RF) machine learning approach was used to predict the probability of occurrence and biomass of sponges, sea pens, and large and small gorgonian corals in the Hudson Strait portion of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada's (DFO) Hudson Bay Complex Bi...