Habitat-based predictions of at-sea distribution for grey and harbour seals in the British Isles : Report to BEIS, OESEA-16-76, OESEA-17-78
The United Kingdom has large populations of both grey (Halichoerus grypus) and harbour seals (Phoca vitulina), which are protected under national and international legislation. In recent years, aerial surveys have revealed region-specific changes in population dynamics for both species, ranging from...
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Grey seal Harbour seal Habitat preference Distribution maps Density maps GC Oceanography QH301 Biology DAS BEIS/DECC SDG 14 - Life Below Water GC QH301 Carter, Matt I. D. Boehme, Lars Duck, Callan David Grecian, James Hastie, Gordon Drummond McConnell, Bernie J Miller, David Lawrence Morris, Chris Moss, Simon Thompson, Dave Thompson, Paul Russell, Debbie JF Habitat-based predictions of at-sea distribution for grey and harbour seals in the British Isles : Report to BEIS, OESEA-16-76, OESEA-17-78 |
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The United Kingdom has large populations of both grey (Halichoerus grypus) and harbour seals (Phoca vitulina), which are protected under national and international legislation. In recent years, aerial surveys have revealed region-specific changes in population dynamics for both species, ranging from exponential increases (e.g. grey seals in the Southern North Sea) to catastrophic localised declines (e.g. harbour seals in East Scotland and Orkney). Up-to-date information on the at-sea distributions of these species is required to inform environmentally sensitive management strategies and marine spatial planning. Such distributions have been estimated using data from animal-borne telemetry tags which record and transmit tracking data, providing information on at-sea movements and haul-out behaviour. Such tags are glued to the seal’s fur and fall off during the annual moult. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, through their Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment (OESEA) programme, provided funding for a large-scale deployment of high resolution GPS telemetry tags on grey seals around the UK, and the subsequent analyses to generate up-to-date estimates of at-sea distribution for both seal species. To produce these estimates, a habitat modelling approach was adopted; seal tracking data were matched to a sample of the available habitat to quantify the region-specific species-environment relationships underpinning seal distribution. Spatially resolved abundance data (i.e. haulout counts) were then used to generate predictions for both species emanating from all known haulouts in the British Isles. The resulting predicted distribution maps provide estimates per species, on a 5 km x 5 km grid, of relative at-sea density for seals hauling-out in the British Isles. Three values are given for each grid cell: the mean density prediction from the habitat preference models and associated lower and upper 95% confidence intervals. For each cell, the confidence intervals provide a range of ... |
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Habitat-based predictions of at-sea distribution for grey and harbour seals in the British Isles : Report to BEIS, OESEA-16-76, OESEA-17-78 |
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Habitat-based predictions of at-sea distribution for grey and harbour seals in the British Isles : Report to BEIS, OESEA-16-76, OESEA-17-78 |
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Habitat-based predictions of at-sea distribution for grey and harbour seals in the British Isles : Report to BEIS, OESEA-16-76, OESEA-17-78 |
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Habitat-based predictions of at-sea distribution for grey and harbour seals in the British Isles : Report to BEIS, OESEA-16-76, OESEA-17-78 |
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Habitat-based predictions of at-sea distribution for grey and harbour seals in the British Isles : Report to BEIS, OESEA-16-76, OESEA-17-78 |
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habitat-based predictions of at-sea distribution for grey and harbour seals in the british isles : report to beis, oesea-16-76, oesea-17-78 |
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Carter , M I D , Boehme , L , Duck , C D , Grecian , J , Hastie , G D , McConnell , B J , Miller , D L , Morris , C , Moss , S , Thompson , D , Thompson , P & Russell , D JF 2020 , Habitat-based predictions of at-sea distribution for grey and harbour seals in the British Isles : Report to BEIS, OESEA-16-76, OESEA-17-78 . Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St Andrews . PURE: 272526314 PURE UUID: a7030526-1602-445c-aceb-7197bed2153e ORCID: /0000-0001-7575-5270/work/90111785 ORCID: /0000-0002-1969-102X/work/90111863 ORCID: /0000-0003-1546-2876/work/90111961 ORCID: /0000-0002-9773-2755/work/90112145 ORCID: /0000-0002-6428-719X/work/90112495 ORCID: /0000-0002-5481-6254/work/90112723 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21558 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/959723/SMRU_2020_Habitat-based_predictions_of_at-sea_distribution_for_grey_and_harbour_seals_in_the_British_Isles.pdf NE/R015007/1 |
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ftstandrewserep:oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/21558 2023-07-02T03:32:30+02:00 Habitat-based predictions of at-sea distribution for grey and harbour seals in the British Isles : Report to BEIS, OESEA-16-76, OESEA-17-78 Carter, Matt I. D. Boehme, Lars Duck, Callan David Grecian, James Hastie, Gordon Drummond McConnell, Bernie J Miller, David Lawrence Morris, Chris Moss, Simon Thompson, Dave Thompson, Paul Russell, Debbie JF NERC University of St Andrews. School of Biology University of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Unit University of St Andrews. Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotland University of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Institute University of St Andrews. School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews. Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling 2021-02-01 74 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21558 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/959723/SMRU_2020_Habitat-based_predictions_of_at-sea_distribution_for_grey_and_harbour_seals_in_the_British_Isles.pdf eng eng Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St Andrews Carter , M I D , Boehme , L , Duck , C D , Grecian , J , Hastie , G D , McConnell , B J , Miller , D L , Morris , C , Moss , S , Thompson , D , Thompson , P & Russell , D JF 2020 , Habitat-based predictions of at-sea distribution for grey and harbour seals in the British Isles : Report to BEIS, OESEA-16-76, OESEA-17-78 . Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St Andrews . PURE: 272526314 PURE UUID: a7030526-1602-445c-aceb-7197bed2153e ORCID: /0000-0001-7575-5270/work/90111785 ORCID: /0000-0002-1969-102X/work/90111863 ORCID: /0000-0003-1546-2876/work/90111961 ORCID: /0000-0002-9773-2755/work/90112145 ORCID: /0000-0002-6428-719X/work/90112495 ORCID: /0000-0002-5481-6254/work/90112723 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21558 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/959723/SMRU_2020_Habitat-based_predictions_of_at-sea_distribution_for_grey_and_harbour_seals_in_the_British_Isles.pdf NE/R015007/1 Copyright © Crown Copyright, all rights reserved. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/959723/SMRU_2020_Habitat-based_predictions_of_at-sea_distribution_for_grey_and_harbour_seals_in_the_British_Isles.pdf. Grey seal Harbour seal Habitat preference Distribution maps Density maps GC Oceanography QH301 Biology DAS BEIS/DECC SDG 14 - Life Below Water GC QH301 Report 2021 ftstandrewserep 2023-06-13T18:27:11Z The United Kingdom has large populations of both grey (Halichoerus grypus) and harbour seals (Phoca vitulina), which are protected under national and international legislation. In recent years, aerial surveys have revealed region-specific changes in population dynamics for both species, ranging from exponential increases (e.g. grey seals in the Southern North Sea) to catastrophic localised declines (e.g. harbour seals in East Scotland and Orkney). Up-to-date information on the at-sea distributions of these species is required to inform environmentally sensitive management strategies and marine spatial planning. Such distributions have been estimated using data from animal-borne telemetry tags which record and transmit tracking data, providing information on at-sea movements and haul-out behaviour. Such tags are glued to the seal’s fur and fall off during the annual moult. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, through their Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment (OESEA) programme, provided funding for a large-scale deployment of high resolution GPS telemetry tags on grey seals around the UK, and the subsequent analyses to generate up-to-date estimates of at-sea distribution for both seal species. To produce these estimates, a habitat modelling approach was adopted; seal tracking data were matched to a sample of the available habitat to quantify the region-specific species-environment relationships underpinning seal distribution. Spatially resolved abundance data (i.e. haulout counts) were then used to generate predictions for both species emanating from all known haulouts in the British Isles. The resulting predicted distribution maps provide estimates per species, on a 5 km x 5 km grid, of relative at-sea density for seals hauling-out in the British Isles. Three values are given for each grid cell: the mean density prediction from the habitat preference models and associated lower and upper 95% confidence intervals. For each cell, the confidence intervals provide a range of ... Report harbour seal Phoca vitulina University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository |