Leigh G. Torres

TL;DR: A review of the development of cetacean-habitat models, organized according to the primary steps involved in the modeling process, can be found in this paper, where the authors discuss the purposes for which CetACH models are developed, scale issues in marine ecosystems, CETCA and habitat data collection, descriptive and statistical modeling techniques, model selection, and model evaluation.

TL;DR: Of high importance is the identification of a widely applicable set of transferability metrics, with appropriate tools to quantify the sources and impacts of prediction uncertainty under novel conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed methods to standardize the analysis of tracking data to identify sites of conservation importance at global and regional scales, which are used consistently to identify biodiversity hotspots and inform marine management decisions.

TL;DR: The results indicate that, due to high habitat heterogeneity and the spatial variability of prey patches, fine-scale models of dolphin habitat selection in coastal habitats will be more successful if environmental variables are used as predictor variables of predator distributions rather than relying on prey data as explanatory variables.

TL;DR: Tracking data from 17 marine predator species in the Southern Ocean is used to identify Areas of Ecological Significance, the protection of which could help to mitigate increasing pressures on Southern Ocean ecosystems.