Project Description
Aims. To compare species distribution models, SDMs, for humpback whales in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park based on different opportunistic sightings datasets and evaluate the impact different sources of opportunistic data have on our understanding of humpback whale habitat relationships.
Project Personnel and Beneficiaries
Consuelo M. Fariello, Jan-Olaf Meynecke and Jasper de Bie
Outcomes to Date
The study provides valuable insights for conservation management and informs strategies to protect humpback whale in changing environmental conditions
Project Significance
We assess the performance of a widely applied SDM technique, maximum entropy modelling (Maxent), to utilise different types of
data and draw conclusions on future use.