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A predictive approach to benthic marine habitat mapping: Efficacy and management implications

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2018
The availability of marine habitats maps remains limited due to difficulty and cost of working at sea. Reduced light penetration in the water hampers the use of optical imagery, and acoustic methods require extensive sea-truth activities. Predictive spatial modelling may offer an alternative to produce benthic habitat maps based on complete acoustic ...
Vassallo, Paolo, Bianchi, Carlo Nike, Paoli, Chiara, Holon, Florian, Navone, Augusto, Bavestrello, Giorgio, Cattaneo Vietti, Riccardo, Morri, Carla   +7 more
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River Habitat Mapping: are Surface Flow Type Habitats Biologically Distinct? [PDF]

Current river habitat mapping uses several methods, many relying on descriptions of habitat units based on depth, velocity, substrate and water surface patterns.
Bickerton, M., Hill, Graham, Maddock, Ian   +2 more
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A machine learning assisted method for rapidly annotating benthic megafauna in large volumes of marine imagery

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent technological advancements have rapidly expanded our capacity for collecting image data in the marine environment, but processing images into meaningful ecological metrics remains a manual, time‐consuming, and biased process. This is particularly challenging with electro‐optical cabled imaging systems which generate images at a rate ...
Katharine T. Bigham, Ada Carter
wiley   +1 more source

Benthic habitat influences sea scallop distributions and swimming behavior based on underwater imagery and machine learning

Ecological Informatics
Understanding the drivers of Atlantic sea scallop distribution and abundance is a priority for fisheries management. While factors influencing scallop habitat selection and recruitment remain poorly understood, the increasing use of optical surveys for ...
Liese A. Siemann, Matthew Dawkins, Luisa M. Garcia, Jonathan Crall, Tasha E. O'Hara   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A novel approach for in situ benthic habitat characterization

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, EarlyView.
Abstract Habitat heterogeneity is a key driver of temporal and spatial variability of subtidal marine benthic biodiversity. However, this makes it a challenging environment in which to measure and quantify the factors driving biodiversity in a consistent manner.
Ryan J. W. Mathews, David K. A. Barnes, Simon A. Morley, Gareth Flint, Lloyd S. Peck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Probabilistic Reconstruction of Color for Species’ Classification Underwater [PDF]

, 2015
Color is probably the most informative cue for object recognition and classification in natural scenes. Difference in shades can indicate to the biologist the potential for diversity of species or stress on the habitats. However, severe color distortions
Pe\u27eri, Shachak, Rzhanov, Yuri, Shashkov, A.   +2 more
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Benthic megafauna and the functioning of macroalgal forests and urchin barrens

Oikos, EarlyView.
Two temperate rocky reef food‐web models, representing the trophic diversity of the Mediterranean rocky reef communities, were built for the two stable states: macroalgal forests and barren grounds, which are characterized by opposite amounts of erect macroalgal biomass.
Chiara Bonaviri, Davide Agnetta, Stefania Pinna, Luigi Piazzi, Fabio Badalamenti, Giulia Ceccherelli, Davide Iaciofano, Manfredi Di Lorenzo, Francesco Di Trapani, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Vesna Mačić, Anna Maria Mannino, Francesco Mura, Luigi Musco, Laura Tamburello, Tomás Vega Fernández, Salvatrice Vizzini, Trevor Willis, Paola Gianguzza   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Habitat Mapping: Survey report and classification of side scan sonar data from surveys HMPR-114-2004-02 and HMPR-116-2005-01. [PDF]

, 2006
The Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (OCNMS) continues to invest significant resources into seafloor mapping activities along Washington’s outer coast (Intelmann and Cochrane 2006; Intelmann et al. 2006; Intelmann 2006).
Cochrane, Guy R., Intelmann, Steven S.
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Catchment conversion to agriculture alters freshwater macroinvertebrate community responses to flow disturbance: results from a replicated in‐stream experiment

Oikos, EarlyView.
Anthropogenic stressors often co‐occur in ecosystems, but their combined impacts are rarely assessed using field experiments. Press disturbances particularly can reshape community dynamics, altering their capacity to withstand or recover from acute pulse disturbances by modifying response diversity.
Bridget E. White, Anne Watson, Sean T. Atkinson, Belinda J. Robson, Russell G. Death, Mark J. Hovenden, Leon A. Barmuta   +6 more
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Urban‐driven homogenization of aquatic subsidy size structure cascades to riparian predator communities

Oikos, EarlyView.
The export of emergent aquatic insects is a critical energy subsidy for terrestrial food webs. While urbanization is known to alter stream communities, its effects on the size structure of these insect subsidies and the subsequent consequences for riparian predators remain poorly understood.
Charles Gagnon, Louis‐Philippe Beauchamp, Eric Harvey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source