A benign technique for mapping coral distribution in the closed areas of the Rockall Plateau ...
No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. Cold-water corals (Lophelia spp.) occur throughout the north east Atlantic and have been identified in bottom trawl records occurring in abundant patches on the Rockall Plateau. As a result, several large areas have been closed to b...
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ftdatacite:10.17895/ices.pub.24752229 2024-02-04T10:03:02+01:00 A benign technique for mapping coral distribution in the closed areas of the Rockall Plateau ... McIntyre, Fiona González-Irusta, José Manuel Neat, Francis Fernandes, Paul G. 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.24752229 https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/A_benign_technique_for_mapping_coral_distribution_in_the_closed_areas_of_the_Rockall_Plateau/24752229 unknown ASC 2014 - Theme session B https://ices-library.figshare.com/ICES-ASC-2014/groups ICES Custom Licence https://www.ices.dk/Pages/library_policies.aspx Technologies and data Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management CreativeWork Conference contribution article Other 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.24752229 2024-01-05T01:56:28Z No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. Cold-water corals (Lophelia spp.) occur throughout the north east Atlantic and have been identified in bottom trawl records occurring in abundant patches on the Rockall Plateau. As a result, several large areas have been closed to bottom trawling to protect this habitat. However, our understanding of the distribution of deep-water coral remains poor. A non-destructive visual survey method using a deep towed camera system was deployed to collect data on the occurrence of Lophelia spp. around the closed areas at Rockall. The species distribution model (SDM) Random Forest was used to predict the potential spatial distribution of Lophelia spp. and infer the environmental requirements of the species. The model used coral presence-absence data from the towed camera survey and the trawl record data. Performance was evaluated by partitioning the data into ‘training’ and ‘testing’ data. The model showed good performance based on Cohen’s Kappa and the ... Conference Object North East Atlantic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Rockall Plateau ENVELOPE(-18.833,-18.833,56.333,56.333) |
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No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. Cold-water corals (Lophelia spp.) occur throughout the north east Atlantic and have been identified in bottom trawl records occurring in abundant patches on the Rockall Plateau. As a result, several large areas have been closed to bottom trawling to protect this habitat. However, our understanding of the distribution of deep-water coral remains poor. A non-destructive visual survey method using a deep towed camera system was deployed to collect data on the occurrence of Lophelia spp. around the closed areas at Rockall. The species distribution model (SDM) Random Forest was used to predict the potential spatial distribution of Lophelia spp. and infer the environmental requirements of the species. The model used coral presence-absence data from the towed camera survey and the trawl record data. Performance was evaluated by partitioning the data into ‘training’ and ‘testing’ data. The model showed good performance based on Cohen’s Kappa and the ... |
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A benign technique for mapping coral distribution in the closed areas of the Rockall Plateau ... |
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