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 (2010). Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools: An integrated framework for ecological geoprocessing with ArcGIS, Python, R, MATLAB, and C++. Environmental Modelling & Software 25: 1197-1207.  doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.03.029.

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., K. Stewart, R.H. Bjorkland, M. Haughton, S. Singh-Renton, R. Lewison, L. Thorne, and P.N. Halpin (2009). A regional analysis of coastal and domestic fishing effort in the wider Caribbean. Fisheries Research 102: 60-68.  doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2009.10.010.

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.

Young, M. A., P. J. Iampietro, R. G. Kvitek, and C. D. Garza (2010). Multivariate bathymetry-derived generalized linear model accurately predicts rockfish distribution on Cordell Bank, California, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 415: 247–261.  doi:10.3354/meps08760.

Benedetti-Cecchi L., K. Iken, B. Konar, J. Cruz-Motta, A. Knowlton, et al. (2010). Spatial Relationships between Polychaete Assemblages and Environmental Variables over Broad Geographical Scales. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12946.  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012946.

Mugo, R., S. Saitoh, A. Nihira, and T. Kuroyama (2010). Habitat characteristics of skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) in the western North Pacific: a remote sensing perspective. Fisheries Oceanography 19(5): 382-396.  doi:10.1111/j.1365-2419.2010.00552.x.

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 10: 165-179.  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

Williams, R., A. Friedlaender, K.-H. Kock, L. Lehnert, J. Roberts, and M. Scheidat (2010). Antarctic minke whale density in relation to sea ice: helicopter surveys in the Weddell Sea. Paper SC/62/IA13 presented to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission.  PDF

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

Schmiing, M., P. Afonso, F. Tempera, and R. Santos (2009). Integrating Recent and Future Marine Technology in the Design of Marine Protected Areas - the Azores as Case Study. Proceedings of OCEANS´09 IEEE Bremen, Balancing technology with future needs, Bremen (Germany), 11-14 May 2009.  doi:10.1109/OCEANSE.2009.5278178.

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.