Plumbing the depths in vast inner landscapes

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Plumbing the depths in vast inner landscapes: All of the pieces

As exploited species and habitats face challenges from anthropogenic influences, such as fishing and climate change, the identification and protection of habitats becomes increasingly important. Most of the papers within this special topic issue used some form of species distribution model SDM to identify habitats used by fishes Asch et al.

A few papers focused on developing methods to better describe habitats Griffin et al. Below we provide a synthesis of these papers under the topics of data sources used for analyses, statistical methods, stationarity and model performance, connectivity, and management implications; we conclude with a consideration of opportunities for advancing this field of study.

Anthropogenic climate change affects both phenology and distribution patterns of the world's biota including marine species. During the last decade, species distribution models have been more frequently used to assess the potential distributions of species and possible effects of climate change. However, unlike for terrestrial species, there have been few investigations assessing climate change effects on distribution patterns of marine organisms.

Aim: Species distribution models SDMs have been used to address a wide range of theoretical and applied questions in the terrestrial realm, but marine-based applications remain relatively scarce.