High-resolution sea duck distribution modeling: Relating aerial and ship survey data to food resources, anthropogenic pressures, and topographic variables

摘要: ABSTRACT Anthropogenic developments in marine coastal zones potentially overlap with areas of conservation interest, including important for birds. Ideally, spatial patterns species abundance should be considered at ecologically relevant resolutions (high resolutions) to inform planning and environmental assessments. Most so far, however, has relied on coarse-resolution distribution maps from atlas projects or models often based limited datasets (few surveys), relationships variables have rarely been taken into account, leaving many studies recommendations vulnerable criticism. We therefore combined the strengths a detailed database spatially explicit aerial ship surveys high-resolution predictors predict density 3 sea duck species, as part an impact assessment (EIA) southern Baltic Sea. also compared results 2 differen...