Lanternfish (Myctophidae) zoogeography off eastern Australia: a comparison with physicochemical biogeography.

ABSTRACT: In this first attempt to model the distributions of a mesopelagic fish family at this scale in the eastern Australian region (10°S to 57°S), lanternfish species occurrence data spanning a period from 1928 to 2010 were modelled against environmental covariates. This involved: (1) data collation and taxonomic quality checking, (2) classification of trawls into "horizontal" (presence-absence) and "oblique" (presence-only) types, and classification of vertical migration patterns using existing literature and the species occurrence database, (3) binomial GAMs using presence-absence data for representative temperate, subtropical and tropical species to examine depth interactions with environmental covariates and refine the selection of environmental layers for presence-only MAXENT models, (4) Pr

SUBMITTER: Flynn AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3859470 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature