Comparing marine distribution maps for seabirds during the breeding season derived from different survey and analysis methods.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how seabirds use the marine environment is key for marine spatial planning, and maps of their marine distributions derived from transect-based surveys and from tracking of individual bird's movements are increasingly available for the same geographic areas. Although the value of integrating these different datasets is well recognised, few studies have undertaken quantitative comparisons of the resulting distributions. Here we take advantage of four existing distribution maps and conduct a quantitative comparison for four seabird species (black-legged kittiwake Rissa tridactyla; European shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis; common guillemot Uria aalge; and razorbill Alca torda). We quantify the amount of overlap and agreement in the location of high use areas identified from either

SUBMITTER: Sansom A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6114294 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature