Publications

Please email jason.roberts@duke.edu if you know of something that is not listed here. If you use MGET in your own published work, we kindly request that you cite it (see Citation Instructions) and let us know.

Publications related to the development of MGET and tools that have been incorporated into it

Roberts, J.J., B.D. Best, D.C. Dunn, E.A. Treml, and P.N. Halpin (in review). Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools: An integrated framework for geoprocessing with ArcGIS, Python, R, MATLAB, and C++. Environmental Modelling & Software

Treml, E.A., P.N. Halpin, D.L. Urban, and L.F. Pratson (2008). Modeling population connectivity by ocean currents, a graph-theoretic approach for marine conservation. Landscape Ecology 23: 19-36. doi:10.1007/s10980-007-9138-y.

Publications describing tools planned for incorporation into MGET

Dunn, D.C. and P.N. Halpin (2009). Filling a marine spatial planning data gap: rugosity as a mesoscale proxy for hard-bottom habitat and marine biodiversity. Marine Ecology Progress Series 377: 1-11. PDF

Dunn, D.C., C.Y. Kot, and P.N. Halpin (2008). A comparison of methods to spatially represent pelagic longline fishing effort in catch and bycatch studies. Fisheries Research 92: 268–276. doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2008.01.006.

Peer-reviewed studies that used MGET

Žydelis, R., R. L. Lewison, S. A. Shaffer, J. E. Moore, A. M. Boustany, J. J. Roberts, M. Sims, D. C. Dunn, B. D. Best, Y. Tremblay, M. A. Kappes, D. P. Costa, L. B. Crowder (in review). Dynamic habitat models: Using telemetry data to understand fisheries bycatch. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

McClellan, C. M. and A. J. Read (2009). Confronting the gauntlet: understanding incidental capture of green turtles through fine-scale movement studies. Endangered Species Research. doi:10.3354/esr00199.

Louzao, M., J. Bécares, B. Rodríguez, K. D. Hyrenbach, A. Ruiz, and J. M. Arcos (2009). Combining vessel-based surveys and tracking data to identify key marine areas for seabirds. Marine Ecology Progress Series 391: 183-197. doi:10.3354/meps08124.

Schick, R. S., P. N. Halpin, A. J. Read, C. K. Slay, S. D. Kraus, B. R. Mate, M. F. Baumgartner, J. J. Roberts, B. D. Best, C. P. Good, S. R. Loarie, and J. S. Clark (2009). Striking the right balance in right whale conservation. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66: 1399-1403. doi:10.1139/F09-115.

Eckert, S.A., J. E. Moore, D. C. Dunn, R. C. van Buiten, K. L. Eckert, and P. N. Halpin (2008). Modeling Loggerhead Turtle Movement in the Mediterranean: Importance of Body Size and Oceanography. Ecological Applications 18(2): 290-308. doi:10.1890/06-2107.1.

Lennert-Cody, C. E., J. J. Roberts, and R. J. Stephenson (2008). Effects of gear characteristics on the presence of bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) in the catches of the purse-seine fishery of the eastern Pacific Ocean. ICES Journal of Marine Science 65(6): 970-978. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsn075.

Select publications from outside the peer-reviewed literature

Ardron, J., D. Dunn, C. Corrigan, K. Gjerde, P. Halpin, J. Rice, E. Vanden Berghe and M. Vierros (2009). Defining ecologically or biologically significant areas in the open oceans and deep seas: Analysis, tools, resources and illustrations: A background document for the Convention on Biological Diversity expert workshop on scientific and technical guidance on the use of biogeographic classification systems and identification of marine areas beyond national jurisdiction in need of protection, Ottawa, Canada, 29 September – 2 October 2009. PDF

Bivand, R. S., E. J. Pebesma, and V. Gómez-Rubio (2008). Spatial Data Import and Export. In Applied Spatial Data Analysis in R (pp. 81-111). Springer, New York. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-78171-6_4.