The implementation of rare events logistic regression to predict the distribution of mesophotic hard corals across the main Hawaiian Islands

Predictive habitat suitability models are powerful tools for cost-effective, statistically robust assessment of the environmental drivers of species distributions. The aim of this study was to develop predictive habitat suitability models for two genera of scleractinian corals (Leptoserisand Montipo...

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Main Authors: Lindsay M. Veazey, Erik C. Franklin, Christopher Kelley, John Rooney, L. Neil Frazer, Robert J. Toonen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-07-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/2189.pdf