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Essential Fish Habitat Mapping in the Mediterranean

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-1-4020-9141-4

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This book presents latest advances in EFH mapping and modelling and introduces the environmental approach to EFH identification through the combined use of latest technologies and advanced techniques, such as Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Statistics.The contents of this book include overviews and comparisons of different approaches on species habitat modelling, methods to identify teleconnection patterns between large-scale meteo-oceanic phenomena and local environmental variation, and EFH maps for cephalopod, shrimp, hake, anchovy, sardine, and swordfish resources in the Mediterranean.


Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Fisheries management, Invasive species, biology, fisheries, marine animals, marine species, population structure, temperature