Predicting cetacean abundance and distribution in a changing climate

By Elizabeth A. Becker, Karin A. Forney, Jessica V. Redfern, Jay Barlow, M. Jacox, J. M. Roberts, Daniel M. Palacios. Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity, 2018

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Changes in abundance and shifts in distribution as a result of a warming climate have been documented for many marine species, but opportunities to test our ability to forecast such changes have been limited. This study evaluates the ability of habitat‐based density models to accurately forecast cetacean abundance and distribution during a novel year with unprecedented warm ocean temperatures caused by a sustained marine heatwave.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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