Advances in habitat models to inform ecosystem-based management: From theory to practice

Conveners: Kevin Friedland (USA), Szymon Smoliński (Poland), Romain Frelat (Germany).

No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.

• Predicting the distribution of deep‐sea habitats: what can be gained from using detailed epibenthic data and high‐resolution predictors? Genoveva Gonzalez‐Mirelis, Rebecca E. Ross, Pål Buhl‐Mortensen.
  
• Using indices of ecosystem dynamics within spatio‐temporal habitat models to estimate single‐species shifts in distribution and abundance: James Thorson.
  
• Prospects for environmental prediction of annual fishery range expansion and contraction: a case study in the Northwest Atlantic: Kisei R. Tanaka, F.G. Taboada, C.A. Stock, J.L. Sarmiento.
  
• Inter-annual variability in fish spatial distributions as revealed by survey data and their space-time modelling: Pierre Petitgas, Didier Renard, Nicolas Desassis, Jean Baptiste Romagnan, Martin Huret, Mathieu Doray, Mathieu Woillez, Jacques Rivoirard.
  
• Incorporating seascape connectivity graph-based metric into species distribution models for marine species: Giorgia Cecino, John Morrongiello, Eric A. Treml.
  
• How major Baltic inflows (MBI) reduce the vertical overlap of predator (Gadus morhua) and prey (Clupeidae) in the Bornholm Basin (central Baltic Sea): a machine learning approach: Robert Herrmann.
  
• Marine oil spill risk assessment in the Arctic: Combining species distribution models, oil spreading calculations and expert knowledge: Inari Helle, Jussi Mäkinen, Maisa Nevalainen, Mawuli Afenyo, Jarno Vanhatalo.
  
• Mapping benthic functional diversity on the Flemish Cap (northwest Atlantic): F. Javier Murillo, Benjamin Weigel, Marieve Bouchard Marmen, Ellen Kenchington.
  
• Climate induced habitat changes in commercial fishery stocks: Brian Grieve, Richard Bell Marta Ribera.
  
• Changes in higher trophic level productivity, diversity and niche space in a rapidly warming continental shelf ecosystem: Kevin D. Friedland, Joseph A. Langan, Scott I. Large, Rebecca L. Selden, Jason S. Link, Reg A. Watson.
  
• Seasonality in depth and habitat use of Western Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) revealed by fishers’ ecological knowledge: Steffen Funk, Uwe Krumme, Axel Temming, Christian Möllmann.
  
• Creating a species distribution model for swordfish: evaluations of the initial habitat variables: Michael Schirripa, Francesca Forrestal, C. Phillip Goodyear, F.J. Abascal, W.J. Buley, R. Coelho, A. Hanke.
  
• Evaluating the pressure from bottom trawling to vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) in the Nordic Seas: Julian M. Burgos, L. Buhl-Mortensen P. Buhl-Mortensen S.H. Ólafsdóttir P. Steingrund S.Á. Ragnarsson.
  
• How demersal fish might benefit from new marine protected areas in the North Sea: W. Nikolaus Probst, Vanessa Stelzenmüller, Henrike Rambo, Meadhbh Moriarty, Simon P.R. Greenstreet.
  
• Fish habitat modelling to evaluate effects of eutrophication mitigation on recreational fisheries: Ulf Bergström, Tore Söderqvist, Lena Bergström, Göran Sundblad.
  
• How space-time use by fishermen can be optimized to reduce sperm whales depredation impact in the Patagonian toohfish longline fisheries: Suberg, Lavinia, Paul Tixier, Christophe Guinet, Nicolas Gasco, Clara Péron, Guy Duhamel, Vanessa Stelzenmüller, Maria Ching Villanueva.
  
• Using simulated catch data from blue marlin and swordfish habitat models to examine different methods of bycatch reduction: Francesca C. Forrestal, Michael J. Schirripa, C. Phillip Goodyear.
  
• Modeling fish distributions with predictors at multiple scales to inform sand dredging management: Bradley Pickens, J. Christopher Taylor, Mark Finkbeiner, Alexa Ramirez, Elizabeth Rogers, Lora Turner, Deena Hansen.
  
• Statistical seafloor bioregions to inform marine spatial planning in the Indian Ocean: Skipton Woolley, Scott Foster, Nicholas Bax, Donna Hayes, Piers Dunstan.
  
• Evaluating the impact of thermal habitat availability on recruitment dynamics: A case study with American lobster in the inshore Gulf of Maine: Mackenzie Mazur, Kisei Tanaka, Yong Chen.
• Habitat association models and habitat growth models for juvenile fish of the inner Danish waters. Elliot John Brown, Alexandros Kokkalis Josianne G. Støttrup.
  
• MarPAMM: Developing benthic species distribution models for the INTERREG VA region. Dr Paul Mayo, Dr Lisa Kamphausen.
  
• Incorporating thermal habitat to improve assessment and projections for temporal and spatial dynamics of American lobster (Homarus americanus) in a changing Gulf of Maine and southern New England: Cameron T. Hodgdon, Yong Chen.
  
• Impacts of climate change on North East Atlantic species distributions and community structure: Louise A. Rutterford, Martin J. Genner, Stephen D. Simpson, Simon Jennings.
  
• Evaluating habitat use of a deep-sea benthic fish species using towed camera footage from the south coast of South Africa: Laura Weston, Colin Attwood, Kerry Sink.