Predicting cetacean habitats from their energetic needs and the distribution of their prey in two contrasted tropical regions.

To date, most habitat models of cetaceans have relied on static and oceanographic covariates, and very few have related cetaceans directly to the distribution of their prey, as a result of the limited availability of prey data. By simulating the distribution of six functional micronekton groups betw...

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Main Authors: Charlotte Lambert, Laura Mannocci, Patrick Lehodey, Vincent Ridoux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4146581?pdf=render