Oxygen and temperature influence the distribution of deepwater Cape hake Merluccius paradoxus in the southern Benguela: a GAM analysis of a 10-year time-series

• Main Authors: Mbatha, F.L., Yemane, D, Ostrowski, M, Moloney, C.L., Lipiński, M.R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: NISC 2020
• Subjects: environmental constraints; generalised additive models; juvenile fish; nursery area; physicochemical characteristics; southeastern Atlantic; Fridtjof; Hake; Gam; Fridtjof Nansen
• Online Access: https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajms/article/view/192042

Generalised additive models (GAMs) were applied to survey data to assess the influence of dissolved oxygen, water temperature and year of sampling upon the presence/absence of small (≤15 cm TL), medium (16–34 cm TL) and large (≥35 cm TL) size classes of deepwater Cape hake Merluccius paradoxus captu...