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| Gonzalez Garcia, Laura; Pierce, Graham J.; Autret, Emmanuelle; Torres-palenzuela, Jesus M.. |
| Blue whales are sighted every year around the Azores islands, which apparently provide an important seasonal foraging area. In this paper we aim to characterize habitat preferences and analyze the temporal distribution of blue whales around São Miguel Island. To do so, we applied Generalized Additive Models to an opportunistic cetacean occurrence dataset and remotely sensed environmental data on bathymetry, sea surface temperature, chlorophyll concentration and altimetry. We provide a brief description of the oceanography of the area, emphasizing its high spatio-temporal variability. In order to capture this dynamism, we used environmental data with two different spatial resolutions (low and high) and three different temporal resolutions (daily, weekly and... |
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| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00460/57145/59069.pdf |
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