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

2011

Mora, C., E.A. Treml, J. Roberts, K. Crosby, D. Roy, and D.P. Tittensor (in press). High connectivity among habitats precludes the relationship between dispersal and range size in tropical reef fishes. Ecography.  doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06874.x.

Scheidat, M., A. Friedlaender, K.-H. Kock, L. Lehnert, O. Boebel, J. Roberts, and R. Williams (2011). Cetacean surveys in the Southern Ocean using icebreaker-supported helicopters. Polar Biology 34: 1513-1522.  doi:10.1007/s00300-011-1010-5.

Schick, R. S., P. N. Halpin, A. J. Read, D. L. Urban, B. D. Best, C. P. Good, J. J. Roberts, E. A. LaBrecque, C. Dunn, L. P. Garrison, K. D. Hyrenbach, W. A. McLellan, D. A. Pabst, D. L. Palka, and P. Stevick (2011). Community structure in pelagic marine mammals at large spatial scales. Marine Ecology Progress Series 434: 165–181.  doi:10.3354/meps09183.

Wooton, C. E. and B. Klinkenberg (2011). A landscape-level analysis of yellow-cedar decline in coastal British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41: 1638-1648  doi:10.1139/x11-061.

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, P.N. Halpin, D.P. Costa, and L.B. Crowder (2011). Dynamic habitat models: Using telemetry data to project fisheries bycatch. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278: 3191-3200.  doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0330.

2010

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.

Tomlinson, C. J., J. E. Thornes, and C. J. Baker (in press). Derivation of Birmingham's summer surface urban heat island from MODIS satellite images. International Journal of Climatology.  doi:10.1002/joc.2261.

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.

2009

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.

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.

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.

2008

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.

Iampietro, P. J., M. A. Young, and R. G. Kvitek (2008). Multivariate Prediction of Rockfish Habitat Suitability in Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary and Del Monte Shalebeds, California, USA. Marine Geodesy 31(4): 359-371.  doi:10.1080/01490410802466900.

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

Payne, M.C., D.A. Reusser, H. Lee II, and C.A. Brown (2011). Moderate-resolution sea surface temperature data for the nearshore North Pacific: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1251.  http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1251/.

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.