Journal article
Bio-ORACLE: A global environmental dataset for marine species distribution modelling
L Tyberghein, H Verbruggen, K Pauly, C Troupin, F Mineur, O De Clerck
Global Ecology and Biogeography | Published : 2012
Abstract
Aim The oceans harbour a great diversity of organisms whose distribution and ecological preferences are often poorly understood. Species distribution modelling (SDM) could improve our knowledge and inform marine ecosystem management and conservation. Although marine environmental data are available from various sources, there are currently no user-friendly, high-resolution global datasets designed for SDM applications. This study aims to fill this gap by assembling a comprehensive, uniform, high-resolution and readily usable package of global environmental rasters. Location Global, marine. Methods We compiled global coverage data, e.g. satellite-based and in situ measured data, representing ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We are grateful to three anonymous referees and the associate editor for their constructive criticisms and suggestions. We thank Satoshi Shimada (SAP Herbarium) and Taiju Kitayama (TNS Herbarium) for providing C. fragile ssp. fragile records. L. T. is funded by the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT). H. V. is a post-doctoral fellow of the Research Foundation, Flanders. F. M. was sponsored by the AXA Foundation. Part of this work was carried out using the Stevin Supercomputer Infrastructure at Ghent University.