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Year-round habitat suitability of baleen whales in the Southern Ocean

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posted on 2021-11-16, 14:06 authored by Ahmed El-GabbasAhmed El-Gabbas, Ilse Van Opzeeland, Elke Burkhardt, Olaf Boebel
These animated videos represent daily and weekly mean habitat suitability from dynamic species distribution models on four baleen whale species in the Southern Ocean: Antarctic minke (Balaenoptera bonaerensis), Antarctic blue (Balaenoptera musculus intermedia), fin (Balaenoptera physalus), and humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) whales.

For more information, see the full manuscript:
> El-Gabbas et al. (2021) Dynamic species distribution models in the marine realm: predicting year-round habitat suitability of baleen whales in the Southern Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:802276. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.802276

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Funding

The project was financially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) through the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), grant number 2817HS004

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