Comparing distribution of harbour porpoise using generalized additive models and hierarchical Bayesian models with integrated nested laplace approximation

• Published in: Ecological Modelling
• Main Authors: Williamson, LD, Scott, BE, Laxton, M, Illian, JB, Todd, VLG, Miller, PI, Brookes, KL
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: Gam; Laplace; Harbour porpoise; Phocoena phocoena
• Online Access: http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9727/; http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/9727/1/Williamson_et_al_Ecol_Model_2022_porpoise_model.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110011

Species Distribution Models (SDMs) are used regularly to develop management strategies, but many modelling methods ignore the spatial nature of data. To address this, we compared fine-scale spatial distribution predictions of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) using empirical aerial-video-survey d...