Spatio-temporal patterns in juvenile habitat for 13 groundfishes in the California Current Ecosystem.

Identifying juvenile habitats is critical for understanding a species' ecology and for focusing spatial fishery management by defining references like essential fish habitat (EFH). Here, we used vector autoregressive spatio-temporal models (VAST) to delineate spatial and temporal patterns in ju...

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Main Authors: Nick Tolimieri, John Wallace, Melissa Haltuch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237996