| Autor: |
Julia Mackin-McLaughlin, Shreya Nemani, Benjamin Misiuk, Adam Templeton, Patrick Gagnon, Evan Edinger, Katleen Robert |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
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| Zdroj: |
Frontiers in Environmental Science, Vol 10 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2296-665X |
| DOI: |
10.3389/fenvs.2022.999483 |
| Popis: |
Coastal habitats have the potential to be biodiversity hotspots that provide important ecosystem services, but also hotspots for human development and exploitation. Continued use of coastal ecosystem services requires establishing baselines that capture the present state of the benthos. This study employs habitat mapping to establish a baseline describing the spatial distribution of benthic organisms along the western coast of Placentia Bay, an Ecologically and Biologically Significant Area (EBSA) in Newfoundland, Canada. The influence of seafloor characteristics on the distribution of four dominant epifaunal assemblages and two macrophyte species were modelled using two machine learning techniques: the well-established Random Forest and the newer Light Gradient Boosting Machine. When investigating model performance, the inclusion of fine-scale ( |
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