Combining potential and realized distribution modeling of telemetry data for a bycatch risk assessment.

ABSTRACT: Establishing marine species distributions is essential for guiding management and can be estimated by identifying potential favorable habitat at a population level and incorporating individual-level information (e.g., movement constraints) to inform realized space use. In this research, we applied a combined modeling approach to tracking data of adult female and juvenile South American sea lions (Otaria flavescens; n = 9) from July to November 2011 to make habitat predictions for populations in northern Chile. We incorporated topographic and oceanographic predictors with sea lion locations and environmentally based pseudo-absences in a generalized linear model for estimating population-level distribution. For the individual approach, we used a generalized linear mixed-effects

SUBMITTER: Frantz BH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11199131 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature