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Oxford University Press, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 7(76), p. 2349-2361, 2019

DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsz099

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Mapping Arctic clam abundance using multiple datasets, models, and a spatially explicit accuracy assessment

Journal article published in 2019 by Benjamin Misiuk ORCID, Trevor Bell, Alec Aitken, Craig J. Brown ORCID, Evan N. Edinger
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Abstract Species distribution models are commonly used in the marine environment as management tools. The high cost of collecting marine data for modelling makes them finite, especially in remote locations. Underwater image datasets from multiple surveys were leveraged to model the presence–absence and abundance of Arctic soft-shell clam (Mya spp.) to support the management of a local small-scale fishery in Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut, Canada. These models were combined to predict Mya abundance, conditional on presence throughout the study area. Results suggested that water depth was the primary environmental factor limiting Mya habitat suitability, yet seabed topography and substrate characteristics influence their abundance within suitable habitat. Ten-fold cross-validation and spatial leave-one-out cross-validation (LOO CV) were used to assess the accuracy of combined predictions and to test whether this was inflated by the spatial autocorrelation of transect sample data. Results demonstrated that four different measures of predictive accuracy were substantially inflated due to spatial autocorrelation, and the spatial LOO CV results were therefore adopted as the best estimates of performance.