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Deep ocean drivers better explain sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus than beaked whale habitat preferences in the Bay of Biscay

2022-02-24

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Species Distribution Models are commonly used with surface dynamic environmental variables as proxies for prey distribution to characterise marine top predator habitats. For oceanic species that spend lot of time at depth, surface variables might not be relevant to predict deep-dwelling prey distributions. We hypothesised that descriptors of deep-water layers would better predict the deep-diving cetacean distribut...

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Literature Corpus work: f72773ef-798f-52dc-bc13-923f54ac2709
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1372543/v1

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